Re: Dead-end in PostgreSQL 8.0 fresh installation (while upgrading doesn't get anywhere)

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:09:15 +0200, Jarkko Elfving <jarelf(at)ebaana(dot)net> wrote:
> Hi again...
>
> I tried to solve my PostgreSQL cluster problem like Michael Fuhr and
> Lonni Friedman helps me, but I didn't get it work. So I figured out that
> if I do an fresh installation and removed the PostgreSQL completely
> (even those JDBC and PL -drivers - everything) and be sure that it is
> completely removed. Then I installed it again with rpm -Uhv command and
> start to proceed like the manuals tells me, but now I'm in dead-end:
> initdb fails because postgres program was not found. How this could be
> happened? I did not removed the postgres user because I thought that is
> not needed to do. Initdb returns following fail:
>
> # su postgres
> bash-3.00$ initdb -D=/var/lib/pgsql/data/
> fgets failure: Success
> The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the
> same directory as "/usr/bin/initdb".
> Check your installation.
>
> I did check that file postgres really is in /usr/bin -folder.
>
> How should I proceed now?

Are you using the RPMs? If so, then starting postgresql with
/etc/init.d/postgresql for the first time will run initdb for you.

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