Hi, Encountered the following behavior with initdb on one of our test builds while using latest master head:
initdb -D $DATADIR The program "postgres" was found by "/Users/nikhils/install/bin/initdb" but was not the same version as initdb. Check your installation. Intrigued, on digging down further, this is happening because we are not using a long enough buffer to accept the output of "postgres -V" in the find_other_exec() function. In our case, we had used --with-extra-version option with configure which caused the output of "postgres -V" to go a little beyond the current "line" variable size. This caused the strcmp to fail leading to initdb refusing to initialize any data directories at all. PFA, a patch which uses MAXPGPATH for the variable size. Regards, Nikhils -- Nikhil Sontakke http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL/Postgres-XL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
initdb_path_variable.patch
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