"Mike Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > mv global.bki global.bki.old; mv template1.bki template1.bki.old > cat global.bki.old | sed s/" ame"/" name"/ > global.bki > cat template1.bki.old | sed s/" ame"/" name"/ > global.bki > Solution is pretty simple actually (did figure this one out). I did find > other people complaining about this, but no solutions. But I just did the > install on an older slackware system and diffed the bki files to find some > as 'ame' and others as 'name' - so I used the lines above and managed to get > it to work just fine. OK, so the breakage is not in the bootstrap parser but in the generation of the .bki files. This is done by the shell script src/backend/catalog/genbki.sh, and in looking it over, I notice with suspicion the step sed -e "s/;[ ]*$//g" \ -e "s/^[ ]*//" \ -e "s/[ ]Oid/\ oid/g" \ -e "s/[ ]NameData/\ name/g" \ -e "s/^Oid/oid/g" \ -e "s/^NameData/\name/g" \ -e "s/(NameData/(name/g" \ -e "s/(Oid/(oid/g" \ -e "s/NAMEDATALEN/$NAMEDATALEN/g" \ -e "s/INDEX_MAX_KEYS\*2/$INDEXMAXKEYS2/g" \ -e "s/INDEX_MAX_KEYS\*4/$INDEXMAXKEYS4/g" \ -e "s/INDEX_MAX_KEYS/$INDEXMAXKEYS/g" \ -e "s/FUNC_MAX_ARGS\*2/$INDEXMAXKEYS2/g" \ -e "s/FUNC_MAX_ARGS\*4/$INDEXMAXKEYS4/g" \ -e "s/FUNC_MAX_ARGS/$INDEXMAXKEYS/g" \ | $AWK ' In particular that "\name" looks pretty bogus. Would you try removing that backslash and see if the script works then? I'll betcha that some versions of sed convert the \n to a newline ... BTW, what version of sed do you have, exactly? regards, tom lane