jonathan harvey <jonathanharv(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> I am trying to get PostgreSQL 8.1.4 up and running on fedora core 5.
Have you started the service? If "ps auxww | grep postgres" doesn't
show some postgres-owned processes, you need
sudo /sbin/service postgresql start
You probably also want
sudo /sbin/chkconfig postgresql on
but that just fixes things so that future reboots will automatically
start the database, it doesn't make it run now.
regards, tom lane