Re: initdb failure (was Re: [GENERAL] sequence's plpgsql)

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> so it appears that cygwin's "echo" generates a different newline style
>> than what got put into sql_features.txt. A possible way to fix this is
>> to put the "\." line into sql_features.txt, but maybe there's a cleaner
>> answer. Peter, any thoughts?

> There's no clean answer to this on Cygwin. This specific case is just a
> little problem that we could solve locally, but in general you'll just end
> up annoying people if you require them to use consistent line endings on
> Cygwin.

Yeah, I was wondering whether you wouldn't propose dropping the newline
consistency check. I'm not very comfortable with that, but maybe we
should. Bruce?

regards, tom lane