From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: 8.0: Absolute path required for INITDB? |
Date: | 2004-08-16 01:28:37 |
Message-ID: | 200408160128.i7G1Sb109648@candle.pha.pa.us |
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What was the resolution of this? Can we make relative -L work or do we
add error checks for relative -L paths?
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> 8.0 beta CVS of 8/8/2004:
>
> If a relative path is used for the -L option in initdb, the following fatal
> error happens:
>
> ./initdb -D ../data -L ../share/postgresql/
> <snip>
> creating system views ... ok
> loading pg_description ... ERROR: could not open file
> "../share/postgresql/postgres.description" for reading: No such file or
> directory
> child process exited with exit code 1
>
> Is this intentional? The first dozen or so commands work fine with a relative
> path, and this executes fine with an absolute path for both -D and -L.
>
> SuSE 9.1, GCC 3.3.3
>
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> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
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