Re: BUG #1151: Initdb fails ...

--- Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> a écrit : >
> Hm. It's starting to sound like an actual bug ---
> though whether it's
> in HPUX 11.00, gcc, or Postgres is difficult to
> guess.

Arg :-(

> The Postgres
> code is certainly known to work on many platforms,
> but it could have
> an unsuspected platform dependency that only shows
> up here.

Sure.

> One thing I'd ask is whether you are up-to-date on
> libc patches for your
> HPUX installation. It's plausible that this could
> be the result of
> buggy libc code (such as strtol or related
> routines).

I'll check this point.

> And my
> recollection is that 11.00 was about as bulletproof
> as you'd expect for
> a dot-zero release :-(

Unfortunatly, this machine is too old and leak of disk
space to upgrade it to 11i (Cost reduction rulez !
:-((( ).

> If no joy there, the only thing I can suggest is to
> rebuild with
> --enable-debug (if you didn't already) and start
> digging into it with
> gdb. If that sounds a bit out of your league, I'd
> be willing to do it
> if you can give me ssh access to the machine. (I
> don't need root,
> an unprivileged user account is enough.)

Unfortunatly, it's not possible as this machine is
behind our companie firewall.

I'll let you know.

Regards,

Laurent

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