Location of installation:
/usr/local/src/postgresql-7.0.2/src

./configure 		ran just fine  

gmake			ran just fine:

All of PostgreSQL is successfully made. Ready to install.

gmake install

runs but here are a few of the missing items:

gcc -I../../include -I../../backend   -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I..    -c fmgrtab.c -o fmgrtab.o
ld -r -o SUBSYS.o fmgrtab.o adt/SUBSYS.o cache/SUBSYS.o error/SUBSYS.o fmgr/SUBSYS.o hash/SUBSYS.o init/SUBSYS.o misc/SUBSYS.o mmgr/SUBSYS.o sort/SUBSYS.o time/SUBSYS.o


gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/postgresql-7.0.2/src/backend/tcop'
gcc -I../../include -I../../backend   -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I.. -Wno-error   -c fastpath.c -o fastpath.o


gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/postgresql-7.0.2/src/backend/libpq'
gcc -I../../include -I../../backend   -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I..   -c be-dumpdata.c -o be-dumpdata.o
gcc -I../../include -I../../backend   -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I..   -c be-pqexec.c -o be-pqexec.o


<Note: these were clipped in reverse of execution order>

but I did get this ending message:

Thank you for choosing PostgreSQL, the most advanced open source database 
engine.


next

adduser postgres
adduser: user postgres exists


su - postgres			worked fine:

[postgres@frost pgsql]$


/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

		runs fine(initdb already exists)

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &

			pgsql seems to load correctly

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test


CAUSES THIS ERROR:

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql: error in loading shared libraries: libpq.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
createdb: database creation failed
[1]+  Exit 1                  /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1


??????????????

Now from the instruction(which are entered here verbosely from the INSTALL file:

 1. Create the PostgreSQL superuser account. This is the user the server
     will run as. For production use you should create a separate,
     unprivileged account (postgres is commonly used). If you do not have
     root access or just want to play around, your own user account is
     enough.


NOW  I'm familiar with THE 'root' account, user accounts and group accounts,
but I've never seen an 'application superuser account'?????????

sudo   or something like that?????????

Also, I had to run the installation as 'root' as  users do not
have priviledges to write to the /usr/local/   directories, so the
aforementioned warning about the server running as the user
account, are somewhat confusing to me

I'm experimenting on RedHat Linux 6.1

Apache(1.3.12), DBI(1.14) and DBD-Pg(0.95) and Perl(5.005_03)
are all installed have passed several tests. All these
packages are installed from source, all RPMs have been
uninstalled.

Ideas??????

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