Re: initdb mkdir_p() doesn't work

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> creating directory pg-install/var/data ... initdb: failed

> I will check it out. I know I spent quite some time making sure this 
> worked, but I might have missed something obvious. I wonder if it is 
> platform specific?

AFAICS mkdatadir() shouldn't consider subdir == NULL as a reason to
fail rather than trying mkdir_p.  Indeed, if anything the opposite:
when subdir isn't NULL the immediately prior directory level should
exist already.

I concur with Peter's gripe that a perror() or two wouldn't hurt here.
        regards, tom lane