Richard Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It seems that initdb starts a single-user backend but gives it the "-x"
> option, which makes it call BootStrapXLOG, which fails because it
> expects to be called only on absolutely first-time system startup (?).
> initdb sees the failure and removes everything under the data directory,
> which is the wrong behaviour here.
Sounds like a bug to me too. Peter E. has been hacking initdb to be
more robust; Peter, have you fixed this already in current sources?
regards, tom lane
