"Erik Rijkers" <er@xs4all.nl> writes:
> While test building from CVS head on fedora 10 (also on fedora 6), I get:
> initializing pg_authid ... ok
> setting password ... ok
> initdb: The password file was not generated. Please report this problem.
> initdb: removing data directory "/home/super/pg_stuff/pg_installations/pgsql.cvs_vanilla/data"
[ blink... ] initdb is looking for the flat password file. Which is
not there anymore. I guess the real question is not why it fails for
you, but why it works for anyone else!? Will investigate. In the
meantime, just dike out that test in initdb.c...
regards, tom lane