Re: "initdb -t" destroys all databases

Bruce Momjian writes:

> Peter, comments?

It doesn't destroy all databases anymore, although I can't make any
statements about what it actually does do.  I suppose it's still broken.

> > Richard Poole <richard.poole@vi.net> writes:
> > > It seems that initdb starts a single-user backend but gives it the "-x"
> > > option, which makes it call BootStrapXLOG, which fails because it
> > > expects to be called only on absolutely first-time system startup (?).
> > > initdb sees the failure and removes everything under the data directory,
> > > which is the wrong behaviour here.
> > 
> > Sounds like a bug to me too.  Peter E. has been hacking initdb to be
> > more robust; Peter, have you fixed this already in current sources?
> > 
> >             regards, tom lane
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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