RE: Strange problem upgrading to 7.0.3x

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Robert D. Nelson wrote:

> Try uninstalling everything related to postgres that is now installed. Then
> remove /var/lib/pgsql and any data directories that may exist. Start from
> scratch. Oh, and as to order? I just installed them all together, like "rpm
> -ivh postgresql-7.0.3*"

Thanks, Rob! I keep forgetting about the Microsoft approach: unload
everything and start from scratch. That did it. Of course, I forgot the
password for user "postgres", so I deleted and re-added that account. Then
initdb wouldn't work because of ownership problems.

The rpms installed /var/lib/pgsql as owned by root.root. I changed that to
postgres.users but still had ownership problems. Turns out that the
owner/group for for every file and directory under this was 26.26. I changed
those, too, and initdb ran just fine. Postmaster was already running so it
wouldn't start another instance.

Many thanks, all! Now I'll get back to using the tool.

Rich

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