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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers