Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> creating directory pg-install/var/data ... initdb: failed
> I will check it out. I know I spent quite some time making sure this
> worked, but I might have missed something obvious. I wonder if it is
> platform specific?
AFAICS mkdatadir() shouldn't consider subdir == NULL as a reason to
fail rather than trying mkdir_p. Indeed, if anything the opposite:
when subdir isn't NULL the immediately prior directory level should
exist already.
I concur with Peter's gripe that a perror() or two wouldn't hurt here.
regards, tom lane
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