Any idea if this is fixed?

> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > Peter, comments?
> 
> It doesn't destroy all databases anymore, although I can't make any
> statements about what it actually does do.  I suppose it's still broken.
> 
> > > Richard Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > It seems that initdb starts a single-user backend but gives it the "-x"
> > > > option, which makes it call BootStrapXLOG, which fails because it
> > > > expects to be called only on absolutely first-time system startup (?).
> > > > initdb sees the failure and removes everything under the data directory,
> > > > which is the wrong behaviour here.
> > > 
> > > Sounds like a bug to me too.  Peter E. has been hacking initdb to be
> > > more robust; Peter, have you fixed this already in current sources?
> > > 
> > >                   regards, tom lane
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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> Peter Eisentraut      [EMAIL PROTECTED]       http://yi.org/peter-e/
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