Comment 0 for bug 10666

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In , John Lenton (chipaca) wrote :

Package: postgresql
Version: 7.4.6-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

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There's a very silly syntax error in postgresql-startup that makes
postgresql not start. Attached is a patch to fix it (although it's
so simple you might rather do it by hand!)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7++
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages postgresql depends on:
ii adduser 3.59 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf 1.4.40 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.10.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcomerr2 1.35-8 The Common Error Description libra
ii libkrb53 1.3.4-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libperl5.8 5.8.4-4 Shared Perl library
ii libpq3 7.4.6-4 PostgreSQL C client library
ii libreadline4 4.3-15 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-2 SSL shared libraries
ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
ii postgresql-clien 7.4.6-4 front-end programs for PostgreSQL
ii procps 1:3.2.4-1 The /proc file system utilities
ii python2.3 2.3.4-16 An interactive high-level object-o
ii ucf 1.13 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* postgresql/initdb/location: /var/lib/postgres/data
  postgresql/upgrade/preserve_location: $PGDATA/..
* postgresql/settings/day_month_order: European
  postgresql/upgrade/policy: true
* postgresql/settings/locale: C
  postgresql/enable_lang: true
* postgresql/purge_data_too: true
  postgresql/very_old_version_warning: true
  postgresql/upgrade/dump_location: $PGDATA/..
* postgresql/settings/encoding: UNICODE
  postgresql/convert-pg_hba.conf: true