6.4.1 problem

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#1Bill Sneed
bsneed@mint.net

Having a bit of a problem gettin 6.4.1 running on RH 5.1. Source went
into /usr/src/pgsql and runtime into /var/lib/pgsql [RH default dir
for postgresql].

Everything went without a problem until the initdb process, which
keeps failing with the error messages below....PGLIB & PBDATA paths
correctly functioning, environment seems proper, postgres has correct
permissions, etc, etc.

Any help greatly appreciated...

........Bill Sneed, Prospect, Maine.......

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#2Michael A. Koerber
mak@ll.mit.edu
In reply to: Bill Sneed (#1)
Re: [GENERAL] 6.4.1 problem

Summary: If you build Postgresql from the source distribution, ensure
that you remove the RH rpm package(s) first. This avoids getting the
wrong executables durint initdb and such.

I had this type of problem on one of my RH/Linux installations. It turned
out that RH has a /usr/bin/initdb. I should have been running the
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb.

I removed the postgres RPM package(s) and tried again. All went well.

mike

Dr Michael A. Koerber
MIT/LL
Radar Imaging Techniques

On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Bill Sneed wrote:

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Having a bit of a problem gettin 6.4.1 running on RH 5.1. Source went
into /usr/src/pgsql and runtime into /var/lib/pgsql [RH default dir
for postgresql].

Everything went without a problem until the initdb process, which
keeps failing with the error messages below....PGLIB & PBDATA paths
correctly functioning, environment seems proper, postgres has correct
permissions, etc, etc.

Any help greatly appreciated...

........Bill Sneed, Prospect, Maine.......