Re: initdb failure

Tom Lane wrote:

>>I don't mind if we keep it on pure-POSIX platforms.  But one of the nicer
>>developments on Windows in recent(?) times is that you can actually use
>>any kind of line separator and most programs still work correctly (with
>>the notable exception of Notepad).
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>Not sure if we should make the behavior Windows-specific though.  And
>didn't Michael report seeing the same initdb failure on Debian?  That
>confuses me a bit --- why would there be a newline discrepancy on Debian?
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Is this affected by the fact that the platform where a dump is made 
might have a different line-end discipline from the one where the dump 
is restored?

cheers

andrew