On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:01:34AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > I am getting the error: > > " > > creating information schema... ERROR: end-of-copy marker does not match > > previous newline style > > CONTEXT: COPY FROM, line 361 > > " > > That's interesting. COPY is complaining because the \. terminator in > the file it's been fed has a different kind of newline after it than > the newlines earlier in the file (LF vs CR/LF, no doubt). The part
Well actually I'm not so sure. I tried installing 7.4 from Oliver's Debian packages and experienced exactly the same. We have yet to find out why, but I doubt newlines changed between his Debian system and mine. > of the initdb script that must be causing this is > > echo "COPY information_schema.sql_features (feature_id, feature_name, > sub_feature_id, sub_feature_name, is_supported, comments) FROM STDIN;" > cat "$datadir"/sql_features.txt > echo "\." > ) \ > | "$PGPATH"/postgres $PGSQL_OPT template1 > /dev/null || exit_nicely > echo "ok" > > so it appears that cygwin's "echo" generates a different newline style > than what got put into sql_features.txt. A possible way to fix this is > to put the "\." line into sql_features.txt, but maybe there's a cleaner > answer. Peter, any thoughts? Putting the "\." line into sql_features.txt did help me, too. Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
