On 20-Jun-98 Mike Embry x3056 wrote:
> Although the error messages aren't the same, we just recently had a similar
> experience where initdb would fail, core dump and the data dir wound up
> being empty. In our case, we're upgrading from 6.1 to 6.3.2 while
> leaving the 6.1 running on one system and installing 6.3.2 on another
> system - but the 6.1 binaries could be seen on both systems and were
> first in the path. Kept core dumping until we put the 6.3.2 first in the
> path. Even when we entered the full path to the 6.3.2 binaries.
Thanks for the advice, but I tested this theory first- because I had a previous instal
l of postgres on the machine - and because that was the root of most of the problems repo
rted in May....Unless these files are being really sneaky - I completly deleted my /usr/lo
cal/pgsql dir before the install (I did a find / -print|grep libpq without finding anythin
g)
I still haven't figured out what's causing the problem other than the failed assertion in
bootstrap.c
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