"Joel Fradkin" <jfradkin(at)wazagua(dot)com> writes:
> Is there an action I can take now since it is installed and in theory the
> RPM's are up2date. Sorry I have a few books on postgres Oreily and Sams, but
> it seems a bit deep on install.
Sure, you can use the RPMs you have. You want something like (as root)
service postgresql stop
rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql/data
setenforce 0
service postgresql start
The start script will observe that there's no database directory and
proceed to run initdb for you.
regards, tom lane