Re: base/1 instead of base/template1 initdb result

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Jean-Roch SCHMITT <jean-roch(dot)schmitt(at)cybercable(dot)fr>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: base/1 instead of base/template1 initdb result
Date: 2001-04-06 14:44:55
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0104061642060.1603-100000@peter.localdomain
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Jean-Roch SCHMITT writes:

> I can't find any reports on this problem :
> On MacOS X (darwin), the initdb command creates, as the template, the
> "base/1" directory
> intead of "base/template1". Further databases creation is then possible
> but this odd directory
> naming prevents correct pg_upgrade operations from Postgres databases
> created on Solaris, for instance.

Firstly, this is the correct new naming scheme in PostgreSQL (on any
platform).

Secondly, it wouldn't be possible to use pg_upgrade between different
architectures anyway.

Thirdly, it wouldn't be possible to use pg_upgrade to move from 7.0 to 7.1
anyway.

Fourthly, pg_upgrade no longer exists.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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