Edmund Horner <ejr...@gmail.com> writes: > On 12 June 2012 14:23, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Hm, that patch seems to be several bricks shy of a load. I will fix >> two obvious bugs in it: >> (1) not dump core on boxes where printf("%s", NULL) dumps core;
> I saw that, but I couldn't decide if it was the actual problem in my > case. Later parts of adjust_data_dir appeared to be running (looking > at file system activity). The weird thing is that if it's not dumping core, the first fopen would presumably be trying to open "/postgresql.conf", which generally ought to fail and thus mask any problems in the rest of adjust_data_dir(). Have you by any chance got a postgresql.conf laying about in your root directory? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs