Re: initdb fails on ultra2 sparc64, freebsd 5.4

On 2005-05-21, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andrew - Supernews <andrew+nonews@supernews.com> writes:
>> The reason for the hang is that the sending end of the pipe from initdb
>> to postgres is not being closed by popen(), so postgres never sees EOF
>> on it. In this context I am suspicious of the fact that while libpq is
>> being built with threading, the apps which link against it do not appear
>> to be.
>
> initdb does not use libpq ... it might link to it, because of sloppy
> LIBS list management, but it doesn't ever call it.  There is, by
> definition, no running postmaster available for libpq to contact.

Linking to it is enough to bring in libc_r, and pick up libc_r's versions
of at least some system calls. The ktrace results show this.

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