Re: Initdb failure with PG 7.1.3 on RH 7.1...

Paul Stavrides <pstav123(at)adelie(dot)net> writes:
> Yes, I know, the -n switch. No, 1262 never gets created as far as I can
> tell. I am going to have to get much deeper into this, I'm afraid.

How about the other files in $PGDATA/global? (Posting an ls -lR of
the post-failure $PGDATA might be helpful.)

pg_database should be created, and one entry put into it, as a result of
the first steps in the "Creating global relations" operation (the
postgres run that's reading global.bki). Correct contents of
$prefix/share/global.bki for 7.1 are exhibited below --- does yours look
the same?

regards, tom lane

# PostgreSQL 7.1
# 1 "/tmp/genbkitmp.c"
create bootstrap pg_database
(
datname = name ,
datdba = int4 ,
encoding = int4 ,
datistemplate = bool ,
datallowconn = bool ,
datlastsysoid = oid ,
datpath = text
)
insert OID = 1 ( template1 PGUID ENCODING t t 0 "" )
close pg_database
create bootstrap pg_variable
(
varfoo = oid
)
close pg_variable
create bootstrap pg_shadow
(
usename = name ,
usesysid = int4 ,
usecreatedb = bool ,
usetrace = bool ,
usesuper = bool ,
usecatupd = bool ,
passwd = text ,
valuntil = int4
)
insert OID = 0 ( "POSTGRES" PGUID t t t t _null_ _null_ )
close pg_shadow
create bootstrap pg_group
(
groname = name ,
grosysid = int4 ,
grolist = int4[]
)
close pg_group
create bootstrap pg_log
(
logfoo = oid
)
close pg_log