| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Debugging initdb breakage |
| Date: | 2010-10-12 20:35:44 |
| Message-ID: | 20101012203544.GA16383@fetter.org |
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:05:57PM +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)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!
Where should we preserve this, other than the mailing list archives?
Cheers,
David.
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