Re: trouble with an older version of postgresql

I cant start psql. It says:

psql: FATAL: Database "kkrizan" does not exist in the system catalog.

'kkrizan' is my username.

K.K.

From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mladen(dot)gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com]
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 12:08 AM
To: Krešimir Križanović
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] trouble with an older version of postgresql

Create database "postgres" from psql. It's an empty database, anyway.

On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 11:47 +0100, Krešimir Križanović wrote:

Hi, i downloaded telegraphCQ, a datastreaming tool based on postgresql 7.3.2.

I managed to install it and some library it needs, and now i have to start postmaster and create a database.

Step 1: $ initdb --no-locale -D /home/kkrizan/tcq/pgdata
All goes well

Step 2: $ pg_ctl start -D /home/kkrizan/tcq/pgdata -l /home/kkrizan/tcq/log/pglog
All goes well. I can see postmaster process using ps –x.

Step 3: $ createdb kkdb
I get an error.
createdb: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL: Database "postgres" does not exist in the system catalog.

Could you give me a few pointers how to solve this error problem?


Thanks in advance

Kresimir Krizanovic

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