"Harvey, Allan AC" <HarveyA@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > creating template1 database in /upgrades/postgres/postgresql-8.3.3/src/test/regre > ss/./tmp_check/data/base/1 ... =: is not an identifier I'd guess you have an incompatible awk or possibly sed. Look at the postgres.bki file generated on this system and compare it to one generated from 8.3 on a non-broken system. It might or might not be easy to determine exactly where the breakage is, but I suspect the short answer is going to be "install gawk". regards, tom lane
