On 2005-05-21, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew - Supernews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The reason for the hang is that the sending end of the pipe from initdb >> to postgres is not being closed by popen(), so postgres never sees EOF >> on it. In this context I am suspicious of the fact that while libpq is >> being built with threading, the apps which link against it do not appear >> to be. > > initdb does not use libpq ... it might link to it, because of sloppy > LIBS list management, but it doesn't ever call it. There is, by > definition, no running postmaster available for libpq to contact.
Linking to it is enough to bring in libc_r, and pick up libc_r's versions of at least some system calls. The ktrace results show this. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
