Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-07-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
? --- Dave Page wrote: -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 June 2004 00:22 To: Dave Page Cc: PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip Dave

Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-07-28 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2004 09:29 To: Dave Page Cc: Tom Lane; PostgreSQL-development; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip Dave, now that we are nearing beta, I think we need to correct

Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-07-28 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Dave Page wrote: -Original Message- From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2004 09:29 To: Dave Page Cc: Tom Lane; PostgreSQL-development; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip Dave, now that we are nearing beta, I think we need

Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-07-28 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruce Momjian wrote: Dave, now that we are nearing beta, I think we need to correct the initdb problem with removing the directory on Win32. Would you code this up as something that sits in /port/dirmod.c and have both initdb and DROP DATABASE call the C routine rather than call rm -r/rmdir? (I

Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-07-28 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The small wrinkle here is that rmtree needs to make a copy of the file names before it starts removing things. In the backend case that means calling palloc() and friends - am I correct in assuming it is reasonable to do this in whatever context

Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-07-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: I wanted to keep a solution that was as native to the OS as possible, but because we can't do that on Win32 and few people like the unix system call to 'rm', it is time to clean it up. One question --- why is there a sleep loop needed for unlink in your patch?

Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-07-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Seems it might be time to address this and get it fixed. Win32 doesn't clean up the directory structure under /data and leave /data unchanged, and there is no way to do this with a system() command on Win32. I resisted adding a C version of rmtree during Win32 development because I was

Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-06-20 Thread Andrew Dunstan
John Hansen said: On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 08:04, Dave Page wrote: although it says it's clearing the contents of the directory, in actual fact it leaves the directory structure in place, thus a subsequent initdb will not run without a manual clearup. Hm. The rmtree() function in

Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-06-20 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: John Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 6/20/2004 2:27 AM To: Dave Page Cc: Tom Lane; PostgreSQL-development; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip you could of course rmdir /s /q $PGDATA mkdir $PGDATA if the purpose

Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-06-19 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 6/19/2004 12:21 AM To: Dave Page Cc: PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip The target block number is obviously broken :-(. But maybe you have a build consistency problem

Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-06-19 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 June 2004 00:22 To: Dave Page Cc: PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm getting the following error when trying to initdb with CVS

Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-06-19 Thread John Hansen
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 08:04, Dave Page wrote: -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 June 2004 00:22 To: Dave Page Cc: PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm

Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-06-18 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm getting the following error when trying to initdb with CVS tip. creating template1 database in C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... ERROR: could not open segment 1 of relation 1663/1/1255 (target block 26189776): No such file or directory The

Re: [HACKERS] Cannot initdb in cvs tip

2004-06-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane said: Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm getting the following error when trying to initdb with CVS tip. creating template1 database in C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... ERROR: could not open segment 1 of relation 1663/1/1255 (target block 26189776): No such file or