Re: [GENERAL] Error running 'initdb'

Yup, that worked perfect. Just RPM -e'd those old Potgres guys out of there
and it all works great now =) Thanks!

This should PROBABLY be added to the bottom of the INSTALL doc with the OS
notes (under linux remove RPM packages of postgres first)
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Northstar Digital Media Inc.
Jason Farnsworth
jason(at)nsdigital(dot)com
----- Original Message -----
From: Frans de Wet <Frans(at)Playful(dot)com>
To: Jason Farnsworth <jason(at)nsdigital(dot)com>; <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 5:19 PM
Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Error running 'initdb'

> Make sure you have ONLY ONE VERSION (the correct version) of initdb,
> postmaster, and psql and so on in your path ... if you had the postgresql
> rpm installed and then upgraded from the tgz files you can run into
problems
> like this ... although ... I am not 100% sure that it is the exact same
> problem I had ... just a hint ;-) I had the postgres binaries in /usr/bin
> and in /usr/local/pgsql/bin and the postmaster from /usr/local/pgsql/bin
was
> running with the older binaries in the path trying to access it correctly.
> No luck till I removed the RPM.
>
> Frans
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> [mailto:owner-pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org] On Behalf Of Jason Farnsworth
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 03:10
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: [GENERAL] Error running 'initdb'
>
> I've been spending the last couple of days trying to upgrade lots of stuff
> from the standard linux disto programs. Postgres is not making this easy
on
> me. I've followed the INSTALL file instructions verbatim and all is good
> until section 19 of the install doc. It instructs to run the 'initdb'
> command. When I do this I get the following error