Re: Suffering

Umm, did you have a previous 6.5 installation on the machine?
Usually messages like that are caused by mixing 6.5 utilities
and 7.0 ones. IIRC, oidvector is new in 7.0, was something
else before.

Usually this happens if the 6.5 utilities or libs didn't get
uninstalled and are earlier in the search path (like if you
had the rpms and didn't uninstall them, the 6.5 programs
are in /usr/bin and so execute first)

Stephan Szabo
sszabo(at)bigpanda(dot)com

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Rob Stoddard wrote:

> Got this problem:
>
> [rob(at)bloodyaxes bin]# su postgres -c "initdb --pgdata=/var/db --pglib=/usr/local/pgsql/lib"
>
> We are initializing the database system with username postgres (uid=100).
> This user will own all the files and must also own the server process.
>
> Creating template database in /var/db/base/template1
> ERROR: Error: unknown type 'oidvector'.
>
> ERROR: Error: unknown type 'oidvector'.
>
> initdb: could not create template database
> initdb: cleaning up by wiping out /var/db/base/template1
> [rob(at)bloodyaxes bin]#
>
> all of my permissions are correct, this is a totally clean, fresh source install of 7.0.2. I am wondering if this problem persists on anybody else's machine, because mine is all about missing oidvectors, no matter how I compile this thing. I dug thru the source code, and it is defined in there. Anybody know what also reads the include files (other than the compiler)? It is giving the oidvector declaration a complete miss if I know anything at all about this problem...
>
> I tried some time ago to fix this, and couldn't get any help until I erroneously posted the reports from when I tried to configure a directory which I hadn't set permissions for. I got tons of support for that one (thanks!) but none of it did me any good because I realized my error immediately after doing it, and proceeded to make myself a fool by posting those results, rather than the ones from the attempt immediately afterwards.
>
> Thank you for your support!
>
> Rob
>