Re: I know installation questions are boring ...

Tom Lane writes:

> PG_VERSION should contain the 4 bytes "7.0\n".  The initdb script
> creates it in what may be too simplistic a fashion:
>
>     echo $version > "$PGDATA/PG_VERSION"

No, remember that this is new for 7.1.  7.0 uses

sprintf(version, "%s.%s\n", PG_RELEASE, PG_VERSION);
fd = open(full_path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_BINARY, 0666);
write(fd, version, strlen(version));

which should not cause newline foul-ups.

> Of course this just begs the question of why it works for some people
> on NT and not others.  Is this a difference across cygwin releases,
> perhaps?

My understanding is that this is settable by mount-point, so the confusion
is practically unsurmountable.

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