Re: Unhelpful initdb error message

On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 9:53:52 am Tom Lane wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
> > /home/thom/Development/data was causing problems so:
> >
> > mv data databroken
> > mkdir data
> > initdb
> >
> > ... working fine again. I then used the postmaster.pid from this when
> > started up. But if I do:
> >
> > pg_ctl stop
> > rm -rf data
> > mv databroken data
> > initdb
> >
> > ... error messages appear again.
>
> Okay, so the question becomes: what is different between databroken and
> a freshly mkdir'd empty directory? If there is no visible difference in
> contents, ownership, or permissions, then it seems like this is evidence
> of a filesystem bug (ie, apparently empty directory acts nonempty for
> some operations).

A thought, what if you do rm -rf * in the data directory?

>
> regards, tom lane

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