Is postgresql83-server broken?

[Ivan Voras]

2008/8/29 Gábor Kövesdán <gabor at freebsd.org>:
> Palle Girgensohn escribió:
>>
>> I submitted a patch yesterday the I think  fixes this problem. Please try
>> upgrading, and if it still doesn't work, email me again.
>
> I had another problem with 8.3. After installing, initdb couldn't create a
> new database. I needed to get a PostgreSQL server installed quickly, thus I
> didn't save the output... Has anyone else experienced the same?

All my initdbs went fine with 8.3.x (but I didn't try it recently).

The patch Palle talks about above doesn't work for me.