On 6 March 2012 17:46, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Yes, it is completely empty: thom@swift:~/Development$ ls -la data total 8 drwx------ 2 thom thom 4096 2012-03-06 17:48 . drwxrwxr-x 15 thom thom 4096 2012-03-06 17:46 .. -- Thom -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
