Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: postgresql Won't Start

> System Configuration
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> Operating System : Linux RH 6.0
> PostgreSQL version : 6.5.1
> Solution:
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> Include the necessary data directories and file(s)?

Well, you still need to do a couple of things to get Postgres going;
reading the installation instructions in the docs will help even
though you are installing from an rpm.

In particular, you probably need to run initdb to initialize the
database system, and you probably need to edit the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql.init (maybe it doesn't have the .init?) to
make sure it points to the right places.

Postgres can potentially carry a *large* amount of data, much more so
than any other app packaged as an rpm. So it isn't as easy to make
assumptions about where data will go, whether you will have disk space
on /tmp to hold database dumps, etc. So it doesn't fit quite a
comfortably into an rpm as other packages might.

We are currently working on these installation issues for rpms, but my
feeling is you won't be able to get away from it entirely.

btw, it isn't clear to me from your report which "6.5.1beta" rpm you
actually have and from which site you got it.

Good luck.

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California