From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: CS DBA <cs_dba@consistentstate.com>
Cc: PG Admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: initdb fails on AIX
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:16:42 -0400
Message-ID: <16192.1313003802@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E42D725.8070803@consistentstate.com>
References: <4E42D725.8070803@consistentstate.com>
CS DBA <cs_dba@consistentstate.com> writes:
> We're getting the following error when we try to run initdb on an AIX box:
> fgets failure: Error 0
> The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the same
> directory as "/opt/app/postgres/904/bin/initdb".
> Check your installation.
This means that initdb tried to execute "postgres -V" and didn't get any
output. What happens when you try that directly?
regards, tom lane
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