Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2010-09-24 at 16:10 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > The download page states exactly what distros we consider supported. Sorry, I was actually looking at the Postgres Plus download page. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Dave Page
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of vie sep 24 10:55:58 -0400 2010: >> On fre, 2010-09-24 at 11:38 +0100, Dave Page wrote: >> > I didn't know that existed - thanks. Unfortunately the first box I >> > tried it on didn't have it, but t

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Dave Page
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On fre, 2010-09-24 at 09:01 +0100, Dave Page wrote: >> How else would you suggest we find out what may go wrong on an >> unsupported platform? > > Well, some amount of robust and defensive programming can probably > create better error mes

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of vie sep 24 10:55:58 -0400 2010: > On fre, 2010-09-24 at 11:38 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > > I didn't know that existed - thanks. Unfortunately the first box I > > tried it on didn't have it, but that's quite old and not a supported > > platform anyway. if i

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2010-09-24 at 11:38 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > I didn't know that existed - thanks. Unfortunately the first box I > tried it on didn't have it, but that's quite old and not a supported > platform anyway. if it does exist on everything we support, then that > could work. It's tempting, but I

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2010-09-24 at 09:01 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > How else would you suggest we find out what may go wrong on an > unsupported platform? Well, some amount of robust and defensive programming can probably create better error messages in even the most unknown environment. Especially since the pr

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Samuel Rettore wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm having problems installing the database, see: >> >> anfitrite:/opt# ./postgresql-9.0.0-1-linux.bin >> >> Error: Error running /tmp/postgresql_installer/getlocales  : child

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Dave Page
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > Dave Page writes: >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >>> On tor, 2010-09-23 at 23:56 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > Surely the error message can be polished, though? >> >> How else would you suggest we find out

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Dave Page writes: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> On tor, 2010-09-23 at 23:56 +0100, Dave Page wrote: >>> > Surely the error message can be polished, though? > > How else would you suggest we find out what may go wrong on an > unsupported platform? My guess here is

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-24 Thread Dave Page
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On tor, 2010-09-23 at 23:56 +0100, Dave Page wrote: >> > Surely the error message can be polished, though? >> >> Well we don't know what errors we might get on unsupported platforms >> until we test them, and we certainly don't have the re

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2010-09-23 at 23:56 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > > Surely the error message can be polished, though? > > Well we don't know what errors we might get on unsupported platforms > until we test them, and we certainly don't have the resources to test > every unsupported platform. It's hard enough

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-23 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On tor, 2010-09-23 at 16:45 +0100, Dave Page wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Samuel Rettore wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm having problems installing the database, see: >> > >> > anfitrite:/opt# ./postgresql-9.0.0-1-linux.bin >

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2010-09-23 at 16:45 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Samuel Rettore wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having problems installing the database, see: > > > > anfitrite:/opt# ./postgresql-9.0.0-1-linux.bin > > > > Error: Error running /tmp/postgresql_installer/getlocales :

Re: [BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-23 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Samuel Rettore wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having problems installing the database, see: > > anfitrite:/opt# ./postgresql-9.0.0-1-linux.bin > > Error: Error running /tmp/postgresql_installer/getlocales  : child killed: > floating-point exception > Press [Enter] to continu

[BUGS] installer problems

2010-09-23 Thread Samuel Rettore
Hi, I'm having problems installing the database, see: anfitrite:/opt# ./postgresql-9.0.0-1-linux.bin Error: Error running /tmp/postgresql_installer/getlocales : child killed: floating-point exception Press [Enter] to continue : anfitrite:/opt# anfitrite:/opt# uname -a Linux anfitrite 2.6.18-6