[Pkg-postgresql-private] Re: Bug#221144: postgresql-7.3.4-9 post install configure fails

[Martin Pitt]

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Hi!

On 2003-11-19 21:55 -0600, Dan Johnson wrote:
> 	I finally got the postgresql package to complete configuration.
> I had been logging in as a regular user which had noclobber set from the
> ..bashrc and using su to become root and run dpkg.  Even though running
> set -o from a root shell would show noclobber set to off, it would
> always end up set to on when postgresql.postinst ran.  I removed the
> line from the user's .bashrc and configuration completed normally.

Ah! That really sounds like the source of the problem. I did not know
about noclobber before.

AFAICS it should be sufficient to delete postgresql.conf just before
calling sed to rewrite it.

> 	Thanks for all the time you guys put into this for me, I really
> appreciate it.

You're welcome! :-)

Have a nice day!

Martin
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