Re: [HACKERS] Odd behavior of initdb

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Integration wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
>
> Today I got the snapshot (2/27).  I took it and put it on my little intel
> Linux box, RH5.0.  I compiled the sucker with no problem.  I installed it
> with no problem.  The output of initdb --debug is as follows:
>
> (snip)
> <description text>
>
> > CREATED relation pg_description with OID 18791
> > Commit End
> Amopen: relation pg_description. attrsize 61
> create attribute 0 name objoid len 4 num 1 type 26
> create attribute 1 name description len -1 num 2 type 25
> > Amclose: relation (null).
> WARN:heap_modifytuple: repl is \ -9
> > initdb: could not create template database
>
> Does anyone know why this is?  My source is undisturbed, except that I
> changed the max # of backends from 32 to 64 in the sinvaltid.h file in
> include/... as directed by the FAQ.

    My experience with this one is that I had an older libpq floating
around...that was my problem on both FreeBSD and Solaris...