Re: [HACKERS] SIGSEGV in initdb

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jeroen van Vianen <jeroen(at)design(dot)nl>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] SIGSEGV in initdb
Date: 1999-12-18 02:41:22
Message-ID: 199912180241.VAA29530@candle.pha.pa.us
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> While updating my local copy to current sources and running initdb I got a
> SIGSEGV at bootstrap.c:465 while adding template1 to pg_database.
>
> This is because RelationBuildDesc in relcache.c returns a NULL at line 766.
> The comments above this line say:
>
> find the tuple in pg_class corresponding to the given relation id
> if no such tuple exists, return NULL
>
> (the relation is pg_database)
>
> There seems to be some kind of error in the order in which the database is
> bootstrapped and the system tables are created and filled.

Yes, initdb is totally messed up right now. Peter, please...

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