| From: | "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net> |
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| To: | ashley <ashley(at)SITCAS(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Starting PostMaster |
| Date: | 2001-01-15 07:02:01 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0101150158170.7699-100000@chapelperilous.net |
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On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, ashley wrote:
> Instaled this morning
> indications all successful
>
> typing these commands as "postgres" a user as per the INSTALL
>
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> gives:
>
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster does not find the database system.
> Expected to find it in the PGDATA directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data", but
> unable to open file with pathname
> "/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1/pg_class".
Did you run initdb first? This creates the default data directory you
need:
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
Make sure /usr/local/pgsql/data exists and is owned by postgres.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/~bmccoy/
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