Re: initdb

On 10:06 Tue 19 Jun , Jeffrey Webster wrote:
> On 6/17/07, Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
> Hm. Why not just edit your .bash_profile, or .bashrc? (I won't go into
> the details of which to use)
>
> Add:
> export PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> Add the following the line that sets your path:
> :/usr/local/pgsql/bin
>
> It should now look something like:
>
> export PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
> export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin
>
> If you put it in .bashrc just use the following to set the variables:
> . ~/.bashrc
>
> Any new terminal you open will have those settings immediately.

Solved it in the end, thanks.

Debian puts the executables in /usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/bin/
Once I found that I was OK

Now busy trying to migrate a bodge of a spreadsheet to something usable

Regards, John
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