Re: Problem of installation on Mac

I just install it as my own user on my laptop... I usually do something like
./configure --prefix=/Users/myaccount/pgsql
make && make install

then

cd ~/
pgsql/bin/initdb -D /Users/myaccount/pgsql/data
pgsql/bin/pg_ctl _D /Users/myaccount/pgsql/data start

and I'm off to the races ;-)

Good luck!

On 10/18/07, Lizhe(dot)Xu(at)aphis(dot)usda(dot)gov <Lizhe(dot)Xu(at)aphis(dot)usda(dot)gov> wrote:
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>
> Hi, I am a newbie for pgsql and tried to install it on my MacBookPro
> Intel. I got everything correct until creating the user: postgres and
> initdb, then the error message showed up for running the db. How to fix the
> problem?
>
> LizheXusComputer:/Users/lizhexu pgsql$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D
> /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &
> [1] 17837
> LizheXusComputer:/Users/lizhexu pgsql$ su: logfile: Permission denied
>
> [1]+ Exit 1 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D
> /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1
> LizheXusComputer:/Users/lizhexu pgsql$ su lizhexu
> Password:
> LizheXusComputer:~ lizhexu$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D
> /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &
> [1] 17842
> LizheXusComputer:~ lizhexu$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test
> createdb: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to
> server: No such file or directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
> [1]+ Exit 2 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D
> /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1
>
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
> L
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