Re: "initdb -t" destroys all databases

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Richard Poole <richard.poole@vi.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-01-19T21:43:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Any idea if this is fixed?

> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > Peter, comments?
> 
> It doesn't destroy all databases anymore, although I can't make any
> statements about what it actually does do.  I suppose it's still broken.
> 
> > > 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
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/
> 
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