On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On tor, 2010-09-23 at 16:45 +0100, Dave Page wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Samuel Rettore <rett...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm having problems installing the database, see: >> > >> > anfitrite:/opt# ./postgresql-9.0.0-1-linux.bin >> > >> > Error: Error running /tmp/postgresql_installer/getlocales : child killed: >> > floating-point exception >> > Press [Enter] to continue : >> > anfitrite:/opt# >> > >> > >> > anfitrite:/opt# uname -a >> > Linux anfitrite 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Fri Feb 19 23:40:03 UTC 2010 i686 >> > GNU/Linux >> > >> > anfitrite:/opt# cat /etc/debian_version >> > 4.0 >> >> Debian is not a supported platform for the installers - we don't see >> enough demand for it to justify the testing requirements I'm afraid. > > Surely the error message can be polished, though?
Well we don't know what errors we might get on unsupported platforms until we test them, and we certainly don't have the resources to test every unsupported platform. It's hard enough to test the 40 or so we do support. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
