Bruce Momjian writes:
> Peter, comments?
It doesn't destroy all databases anymore, although I can't make any
statements about what it actually does do. I suppose it's still broken.
> > 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
> >
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