this is a goofy situtation.
we had a new linux 2.4.4 kernel with a /tmp not writable by
postgres. granted, this is categorically hosed, but initdb still dumped core
under these circumstances. changing the /tmp to writable
immediately fixed the problem.
-j
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John Scott
Senior Partner
August Associates
web: http://www.august.com/~jmscott
email: john@august.com
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