Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Dave Page
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: On tor, 2010-09-23 at 23:56 +0100, Dave Page wrote: Surely the error message can be polished, though? Well we don't know what errors we might get on unsupported platforms until we test them, and we certainly don't have

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Dave Page dp...@pgadmin.org writes: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: On tor, 2010-09-23 at 23:56 +0100, Dave Page wrote: Surely the error message can be polished, though? How else would you suggest we find out what may go wrong on an unsupported

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Dave Page
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Dimitri Fontaine dfonta...@hi-media.com wrote: Dave Page dp...@pgadmin.org writes: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: On tor, 2010-09-23 at 23:56 +0100, Dave Page wrote: Surely the error message can be polished, though?

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Dave Page dp...@pgadmin.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Samuel Rettore rett...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm having problems installing the database, see: anfitrite:/opt# ./postgresql-9.0.0-1-linux.bin Error: Error running

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2010-09-24 at 09:01 +0100, Dave Page wrote: How else would you suggest we find out what may go wrong on an unsupported platform? Well, some amount of robust and defensive programming can probably create better error messages in even the most unknown environment. Especially since the

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2010-09-24 at 11:38 +0100, Dave Page wrote: I didn't know that existed - thanks. Unfortunately the first box I tried it on didn't have it, but that's quite old and not a supported platform anyway. if it does exist on everything we support, then that could work. It's tempting, but I

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of vie sep 24 10:55:58 -0400 2010: On fre, 2010-09-24 at 11:38 +0100, Dave Page wrote: I didn't know that existed - thanks. Unfortunately the first box I tried it on didn't have it, but that's quite old and not a supported platform anyway. if it does

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Dave Page
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com wrote: Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of vie sep 24 10:55:58 -0400 2010: On fre, 2010-09-24 at 11:38 +0100, Dave Page wrote: I didn't know that existed - thanks. Unfortunately the first box I tried it on

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2010-09-24 at 16:10 +0100, Dave Page wrote: The download page states exactly what distros we consider supported. Sorry, I was actually looking at the Postgres Plus download page. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-23 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Samuel Rettore rett...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm having problems installing the database, see: anfitrite:/opt# ./postgresql-9.0.0-1-linux.bin Error: Error running /tmp/postgresql_installer/getlocales  : child killed: floating-point exception Press [Enter]

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2010-09-23 at 16:45 +0100, Dave Page wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Samuel Rettore rett...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm having problems installing the database, see: anfitrite:/opt# ./postgresql-9.0.0-1-linux.bin Error: Error running /tmp/postgresql_installer/getlocales

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-23 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: On tor, 2010-09-23 at 16:45 +0100, Dave Page wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Samuel Rettore rett...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm having problems installing the database, see: anfitrite:/opt#

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2010-09-23 at 23:56 +0100, Dave Page wrote: Surely the error message can be polished, though? Well we don't know what errors we might get on unsupported platforms until we test them, and we certainly don't have the resources to test every unsupported platform. It's hard enough to