Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On MacOS X, on latest sources, initdb fails:
> creating directory /Users/rhaas/pgsql/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data ... ok > creating subdirectories ... ok > selecting default max_connections ... 100 > selecting default shared_buffers ... 32MB > creating configuration files ... ok > creating template1 database in > /Users/rhaas/pgsql/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/base/1 ... ok > initializing pg_authid ... ok > initializing dependencies ... ok > creating system views ... ok > loading system objects' descriptions ... ok > creating collations ... ok > creating conversions ... ok > creating dictionaries ... FATAL: control file contains invalid data > child process exited with exit code 1 Same for me. It's crashing here: if (ControlFile->state < DB_SHUTDOWNED || ControlFile->state > DB_IN_PRODUCTION || !XRecOffIsValid(ControlFile->checkPoint)) ereport(FATAL, (errmsg("control file contains invalid data"))); state == DB_SHUTDOWNED, so the problem is with the XRecOffIsValid test. ControlFile->checkPoint == 19972072 (0x130BFE8), what's wrong with that? (I suppose the reason this is only failing on some machines is platform-specific variations in xlog entry size, but it's still a bit distressing that this got committed in such a broken state.) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers