"John Fabiani" <jfabiani(at)yolo(dot)com> writes:
> I'm a newbie too. In my case I had to create the directories prior to
> initdb. Also I had to create the linux user "postrgres".
If you're installing from RPMs, you shouldn't need to do that. Simply
install the packages and run '/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start' which
will initdb and start the database for you.
-Doug
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