Re: "initdb -t" destroys all databases

Peter, comments?


> Richard Poole <richard.poole@vi.net> writes:
> > It seems that initdb starts a single-user backend but gives it the "-x"
> > option, which makes it call BootStrapXLOG, which fails because it
> > expects to be called only on absolutely first-time system startup (?).
> > initdb sees the failure and removes everything under the data directory,
> > which is the wrong behaviour here.
> 
> Sounds like a bug to me too.  Peter E. has been hacking initdb to be
> more robust; Peter, have you fixed this already in current sources?
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 


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