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Re: Debugging initdb breakage

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-10-12T20:05:57Z
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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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Dimitri Fontaine
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