Re: Still not able to initdb

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:38:26AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 13:27, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > I just tried the latest Debian packages for beta4 and I still cannot
> > initdb. It's the same old problem. Once I add a "\." to sql_features.txt
> > it works well, but without it it errors out.
> >
> > Needless to say that the 'echo "\."' is there in initdb, but it still
> > doesn't work without the additional entry in sql_features.txt. No idea
> > why.
>
> There must be some difference between our systems.
> [...]
> One other possibility: initdb uses /bin/sh. On my system, that is
> provided by bash

That's it! I'm using ash as sh.

I have no idea why, but the reason is that the last CR is not read by
the postgres process as proved by an strace run. After adding an
additional 'echo' after the 'echo "\."' makes initdb run just fine with
ash.

But when I try simulating this and run

(
echo "COPY information_schema.sql_features (feature_id, feature_name, sub_feature_id, sub_feature_name, is_supported, comments) FROM STDIN;"
cat /usr/share/postgresql/sql_features.txt
echo "\."
) | tail -2|od -xc

both shells reveal the same output.

Michael
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