I am using 7.1.2 on red hat 7.1
I compiled postgres myself
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:16:35PM -0400, newsreader(at)mediaone(dot)net wrote:
> man creatdb says -D supposed to be specify the
> alternative location
>
> I try (as postgres user)
>
> $ createdb -D /bla bla
>
> and it says
>
> absolute path are not allowed.
>
> Then I read man initlocation. The example
> I see is
>
> $ initlocation /opt/postgres/data
> $ createdb -D /opt/postgres/data/testdb testdb
>
> so I do the same and it fails with the same reason
>
> Does anyone have any idea?
>
> thanks
>
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