I wrote:
> "Erik Rijkers" <e...@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...

Ah: the answer is that that test is only made when --pwfile or
--pwprompt is specified.  I guess you're the first one to try those
since the no-flatfiles patch went in.  Thanks for reporting;
fix is committed.

                        regards, tom lane

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