[sorry for the repost...lists down? Problem may or may not be on win32 version only] The catalog number was updated, so it was time to run initdb.
Sometime over the weekend (or since the last initdb I ran, about a week), the source was updated which caused an AV & CRASH during initdb...specifically during pg_depend step. Also, after initdb fails, the files are removed but the folders are not, causing subsequent attempts to initdb not to work...is this the expected hehavior? Here is the log: H:\>initdb The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "Merlin.Moncure". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. fixing permissions on existing directory c:/postgres/data ... ok creating directory c:/postgres/data/global ... ok creating directory c:/postgres/data/pg_xlog ... ok creating directory c:/postgres/data/pg_clog ... ok creating directory c:/postgres/data/base ... ok creating directory c:/postgres/data/base/1 ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 100 selecting default shared_buffers ... 1000 creating configuration files ... ok creating template1 database in c:/postgres/data/base/1 ... ok initializing pg_shadow ... ok enabling unlimited row size for system tables ... ok initializing pg_depend [CRASH]... initdb: child process was terminated by signal 5 initdb: failed initdb: removing contents of data directory "c:/postgres/data" Deleted file - c:\postgres\data\pg_hba.conf [...] Merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org