Re: [BUGS] 8.0: Absolute path required for INITDB?

2004-08-08 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If a relative path is used for the -L option in initdb, the following fatal > error happens: 7.4 fails in the same way, and probably every prior release too. The problem is that the backend has done a chdir into the template1 subdirectory, so paths that a

[BUGS] 8.0: Absolute path required for INITDB?

2004-08-08 Thread Josh Berkus
8.0 beta CVS of 8/8/2004: If a relative path is used for the -L option in initdb, the following fatal error happens: ./initdb -D ../data -L ../share/postgresql/ creating system views ... ok loading pg_description ... ERROR: could not open file "../share/postgresql/postgres.description" for re