Re: [HACKERS] Odd behavior of initdb

Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Integration <abrams@philos.umass.edu>
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-02-27T16:45:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Integration wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
> 
> Today I got the snapshot (2/27).  I took it and put it on my little intel 
> Linux box, RH5.0.  I compiled the sucker with no problem.  I installed it 
> with no problem.  The output of initdb --debug is as follows:
> 
> (snip)
> <description text>
>  
> > CREATED relation pg_description with OID 18791
> > Commit End
> Amopen: relation pg_description. attrsize 61
> create attribute 0 name objoid len 4 num 1 type 26
> create attribute 1 name description len -1 num 2 type 25
> > Amclose: relation (null).
> WARN:heap_modifytuple: repl is \ -9
> > initdb: could not create template database
> 
> Does anyone know why this is?  My source is undisturbed, except that I 
> changed the max # of backends from 32 to 64 in the sinvaltid.h file in 
> include/... as directed by the FAQ.

	My experience with this one is that I had an older libpq floating
around...that was my problem on both FreeBSD and Solaris...