Re: [BUGS] BUG #4787: Hardlink (ln) causes startup failure with bizarre "timezone_abbreviations" error

2009-05-02 Thread Tom Lane
Mark writes: > Interesting. Yet, as I reported earlier, whilst a symlink does seem to start > the server, pg_ctl takes a long time to do so, and then report: "could not > start server" anyway. But it actually *does* get started. So I figured maybe > something was not entirely right with the sym

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4787: Hardlink (ln) causes startup failure with bizarre "timezone_abbreviations" error

2009-05-02 Thread Mark
On Sat, 02 May 2009 14:47:48 GMT, Tom Lane wrote > Mark writes: > > I understand the rationale for relocatable packages. So, > > I guess hardlinks are out. But, barring hardlinks, > > perhaps, in the existence of a symlink, a simple 'readlink' > > function could be done to auto-correct PostgreSQ

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4763: postgres service unstable, even during install

2009-05-02 Thread Kevin Field
On May 2, 12:11 pm, Kevin Field wrote: > On May 2, 12:09 pm, Kevin Field wrote: > > > > > On May 1, 12:41 pm, Kevin Field wrote: > > > > On Apr 26, 2:08 pm, dp...@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Field > > > > wrote: > > > > > On Apr 24, 9:32 am,

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4763: postgres service unstable, even during install

2009-05-02 Thread Kevin Field
On May 2, 12:09 pm, Kevin Field wrote: > On May 1, 12:41 pm, Kevin Field wrote: > > > > > On Apr 26, 2:08 pm, dp...@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Field > > > wrote: > > > > On Apr 24, 9:32 am, dp...@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) wrote: > > > > >> I don'

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4763: postgres service unstable, even during install

2009-05-02 Thread Kevin Field
On May 1, 12:41 pm, Kevin Field wrote: > On Apr 26, 2:08 pm, dp...@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Field > > wrote: > > > On Apr 24, 9:32 am, dp...@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) wrote: > > > >> I don't know if there is any way we can solve it, except by reve

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4787: Hardlink (ln) causes startup failure with bizarre "timezone_abbreviations" error

2009-05-02 Thread Tom Lane
Mark writes: > I understand the rationale for relocatable packages. So, I guess hardlinks > are out. But, barring hardlinks, perhaps, in the existence of a symlink, a > simple 'readlink' function could be done to auto-correct PostgreSQL's > base-location? Ala: That's exactly what it already does,

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4787: Hardlink (ln) causes startup failure with bizarre "timezone_abbreviations" error

2009-05-02 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: pgsql-bugs-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-bugs-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane Sent: vrijdag 1 mei 2009 23:57 To: Mark; pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #4787: Hardlink (ln) causes startup failure with bizarre "timezone_abbreviations