Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> creating directory
> /home/alberts/postgresql-8.0.0beta5/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data
> ... initdb: failed
Now that I look at it, the new improved incarnation of initdb seems
prone to say no more than that after a lot of different errors :-(.
But the question for you is why it couldn't create that directory.
Permissions problem maybe?
regards, tom lane