Re: 8.0: Absolute path required for INITDB?

Tom,

> Well, that does deserve investigation.  But I've been initdb'ing
> frequently and not noticed any problems.  What configure switches
> did you use exactly?  Did you try to move the installation tree
> after configure?

Here's the issue: if you start initdb from a directory other than PGBASE, you
can run into trouble:

postgres@mole:/usr/local/pg80b/bin> ./initdb -D ../data
initdb: file "/usr/local/pg80b/bin/share/postgresql/postgres.bki" does not
exist
This means you have a corrupted installation or identified
the wrong directory with the invocation option -L.
postgres@mole:/usr/local/pg80b/bin>

I don't recall having this issue with 7.4.

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-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco