Re: How to run PostgreSQL?

It wasn't installed with package manager; I downloaded and followed the PDF manual from the link ( http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/). But now while I installed it from source; if try to check it with (#rpm -q postgresql ), I get "Package postgresql is not installed". I wonder the system doesn't show me the installed PostgreSQL; I can manually goto /usr/local/pgsql directory which contains my installed version.

Anyways, spent a whole day but couldn't yet figure out the actual problem.

Regards

-Jan
 

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From: Ries van Twisk <pg(at)rvt(dot)dds(dot)nl>
To: Ray Stell <stellr(at)cns(dot)vt(dot)edu>
Cc: Jan Muhammad <janmuhd(at)yahoo(dot)com>; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 1:49:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] How to run PostgreSQL?

On May 7, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Ray Stell wrote:

> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 04:38:59AM -0700, Jan Muhammad wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just downloaded, installed/configured postgresql version 8.2.11 on Fedora Core 6. While reading through the installation manual have setup most of its parts; now while trying to run datebase server with the command:??
>> $ postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>

Doesn't it come with the package manager and can't you not run it from init.d?
If not, read the installation tutorial that comes with the source. But
I hope you don't compile 8.2.11 now from source, right?

Ries