Re: windows / initdb oddness

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: windows / initdb oddness
Date: 2006-02-21 15:16:02
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE6C805A@algol.sollentuna.se
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> This took me hours to find ...
>
> On my Windows box, CVS HEAD gets an execution failure on "initdb foo"
> but succeeds happily with "initdb -D foo".
>
> This is not true for REL8_1_STABLE, nor is it true for all
> Windows machines/environments, apparently, otherwise we would
> be seeing failures from the buildfarm member snake, since the
> buildfarm script does "initdb data".
>
> My suspicion is that this is some side effect of the
> restricted-exec patch, but I don't have time to dig further right now.

Um, so what error msg do you get when it's failing?

//Magnus

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