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Re: Unhelpful initdb error message

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Thom Brown <thom@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 6 March 2012 16:31, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [ scratches head... ]  I can't reproduce it with current git tip.

> And I don't think I can reproduce this if I remove that directory.
> I've seen this issue about 3 or 4 times in the past, and fixed it by
> ditching the old data dir completely.  I'm just not sure what causes
> this to happen.

I'm a bit confused here.  Isn't the data directory totally empty before
initdb starts?  It's supposed to refuse to proceed otherwise.

			regards, tom lane

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