From: | Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | PGSQL Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Unhelpful initdb error message |
Date: | 2012-03-06 17:51:54 |
Message-ID: | CAA-aLv7nc6VbOkeHBiBUtvCr45YbvZpPmU-6tS+U1nUywnctzw@mail.gmail.com |
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On 6 March 2012 17:46, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
>> On 6 March 2012 16:31, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> [ scratches head... ] I can't reproduce it with current git tip.
>
>> And I don't think I can reproduce this if I remove that directory.
>> I've seen this issue about 3 or 4 times in the past, and fixed it by
>> ditching the old data dir completely. I'm just not sure what causes
>> this to happen.
>
> I'm a bit confused here. Isn't the data directory totally empty before
> initdb starts? It's supposed to refuse to proceed otherwise.
Yes, it is completely empty:
thom(at)swift:~/Development$ ls -la data
total 8
drwx------ 2 thom thom 4096 2012-03-06 17:48 .
drwxrwxr-x 15 thom thom 4096 2012-03-06 17:46 ..
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Thom
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