nico...@marchildon.net writes: > "initdb: could not obtain information about current user: Success"
> The misleading part is the "Success". This comes from errno: > pw = getpwuid(geteuid()); > if (!pw) > { > fprintf(stderr, > _("%s: could not obtain information about current > user: %s\n"), > progname, strerror(errno)); > exit(1); > } > The man page says: > RETURN VALUE > The getpwnam() and getpwuid() functions return a pointer to a > passwd > structure, or NULL if the matching entry is not found or an > error > occurs. If an error occurs, errno is set appropriately. If one > wants > to check errno after the call, it should be set to zero before > the > call. AFAICS, getpwuid is not honoring its specification here: it failed to set errno. I don't see that suppressing the strerror result would add anything much. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs