Tom Lane said: > "Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm getting the following error when trying to initdb with CVS tip. > >> creating template1 database in C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... >> ERROR: could not open segment 1 of relation 1663/1/1255 (target block >> 26189776): No such file or directory > > The target block number is obviously broken :-(. But maybe you have a > build consistency problem --- did you try a make distclean and full > rebuild? > >> although it says it's clearing the contents of the directory, in >> actual fact it leaves the directory structure in place, thus a >> subsequent initdb will not run without a manual clearup. > > Hm. The rmtree() function in initdb.c is responsible for this, and I > see it has WIN32-specific behavior, which is evidently wrong. > Can you recommend a fix? >
You can use the builtin one I wrote originally (and tested quite a bit) that doesn't depend on system() calls ;-) cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
