Re: initdb fails at initializing pg_shadow - Mailing list pgsql-admin

> Joerg Brandt <jbrandt@math.uni-bremen.de> writes:
> > Is the following a bug or my mistake -- any hints?
>
> Looks like a problem all right ... which PG version is this exactly?
Sorry, i forgot. postgresql version is 7.1.1, configure options are:
--prefix=/opt/pgsql
--with-tcl
--with-openssl=/usr/lib/ssl
--with-CXX

>
> >> Initializing pg_shadow.
>
> > initdb failed.
> > Removing temp file /tmp/initdb.11243.
>
> Unfortunately initdb shoves all the output from the later steps straight
> to /dev/null, so you can't see what went wrong here.  Look in the initdb
> script and remove the "-o /dev/null" from PGSQL_OPT and the >/dev/null
> from the commands that set up pg_shadow, so that we can get more info.
>

Done. Now i get:
....
> Initializing pg_shadow.
DEBUG:  database system was shut down at 2001-05-11 10:17:52 MEST
DEBUG:  CheckPoint record at (0, 176)
DEBUG:  Redo record at (0, 176); Undo record at (0, 0); Shutdown TRUE
DEBUG:  NextTransactionId: 514; NextOid: 16385
DEBUG:  database system is in production state
FATAL 1:  cannot open pg_class: No such file or directory
DEBUG:  shutting down
DEBUG:  database system is shut down

initdb failed.
Removing temp file /tmp/initdb.17219.

There is no  pg_class file in my postgresql installation path.
Even in the sources i only found this:
$ find . -name '*pg_class*' -print
./src/include/catalog/pg_class.h

O yes, i did all the rtfm.

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