Re: Debugging initdb breakage

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:05:57PM +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > As a note, I've had luck finding bootstrap-time bugs by manually
> > feeding the bootstrapping commands into bootstrap mode, with a
> > leftover dir from "initdb --noclean".  This has helped a few times
> > that there has been no PANIC but just a FATAL or ERROR, for
> > example.  It's easy to attach GDB to such a backend.
> 
> Nice tip, thanks!

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Cheers,
David.
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