Re: pgsql setup

Carsten,

Try adding these to your environment:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib/pgsql/lib
PGLIB=/usr/lib/pgsql/lib

initdb is having trouble finding the library files.

HTH,

Jacques Williams

On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 12:45:16AM +0200, Carsten Huettl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am runing pgsql with suse linux v.6.4
>
> I have installed pgsql with rpm.
> When I start initdb as user postgres I get the following error:
>
> /usr/lib/pgsql/bin/initdb: pg_id: command not found
> Unable to determine a valid username. If you are running
> initdb without an explicit username specified, then there
> may be a problem with finding the Postgres shared library
> and/or the pg_id utility.
>
> What can I do do fix this?
>
> TIA
> C.
>
>
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