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Subject: Re: postgresql installation
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From: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:23:35 GMT
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"Netra systems" <julien@netra-systems.com> writes:

> hello,
> i have pb with the postgre sql installation :
> i compile all .. ok
> but when i want to run postmaster or anything else it say : no db dir :
> data/../template1 ...
> i have no data dir in my postgre dinstalled dir ....
> how can i have this dir with all into ?

Have you run initdb?  My guess is no.

Also, when you run initdb, the data directory it uses (I use /var/lib/pgsql,
which I set up by having my .zshrc file export PGDATA=/var/lib/pgsql
for my postgres account) needs to be the same as that passed to postmaster
via the -D option.

Oh, initdb really should be run as the postgres user.  Definately not as
root!  Make sure your permissions are set up ahead of time!

+C


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