Ian Grant <Ian(dot)Grant(at)cl(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk> writes:
> Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : ia64, 4 way SMP
> Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : Linux 2.4.3 SMP kernel
Does anything else work for you on that box? I seem to recall that
kernels before about 2.4.9 had serious SMP bugs.
> Running the same command again causes it to fail somewhere different, e.g.:
In that case I don't think it's our bug. initdb is quite deterministic,
at least when running on a deterministic platform ;-)
regards, tom lane