Re: "initdb -t" destroys all databases

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Richard Poole <richard(dot)poole(at)vi(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "initdb -t" destroys all databases
Date: 2001-01-19 21:43:12
Message-ID: 200101192143.QAA12949@candle.pha.pa.us
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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(dot)poole(at)vi(dot)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(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/
>
>

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