Re: initdb problem

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joe Barwell <jbar(at)es(dot)co(dot)nz>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: initdb problem
Date: 2007-06-21 14:13:31
Message-ID: 15905.1182435211@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Joe Barwell <jbar(at)es(dot)co(dot)nz> writes:
> The following, however, makes me suspect it's still a
> problem with initdb:

> acorn$ postgres
> postgres cannot access the server configuration file
> "/Library/PostgreSQL8/data:/postgresql.conf": No such file
> or directory

What's that colon doing in the directory name? I think you've probably
got a bad value set for PGDATA.

regards, tom lane

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