Problems installing version 7.1beta4

Started by Einar Karttunenabout 25 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1Einar Karttunen
ekarttun@cs.Helsinki.FI

After compiling and installing the beta with configure with
no extra options on a redhat 6.1 system initdb complained
The program '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres' needed by initdb does not
belong to
PostgreSQL version 7.1beta4. Check your installation.
However the executable is created by the installation. Anyone had the
same problem? Is there any way to get the db working? Because I
need outer joins I cannot use the 7.03.

- Einar Karttunen

#2Alessio Bragadini
alessio@albourne.com
In reply to: Einar Karttunen (#1)
Re: Problems installing version 7.1beta4

Einar Karttunen wrote:

The program '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres' needed by initdb does not
belong to
PostgreSQL version 7.1beta4. Check your installation.

See previous thread. You must not run it as root.

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#3Tim Barnard
tbarnard@povn.com
In reply to: Einar Karttunen (#1)
Re: Problems installing version 7.1beta4

If you're sure your're su-ed into "postgres", check the permissions on the
directory your trying to create the database in. I got that same error and
eventually figured out and fixed it when the directory I was trying to
create it in didn't have "write" permission. Yes, it's a strange error to
get for a permissions problem :-)

Regards,

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Einar Karttunen" <ekarttun@cs.Helsinki.FI>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 12:53 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] Problems installing version 7.1beta4

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After compiling and installing the beta with configure with
no extra options on a redhat 6.1 system initdb complained
The program '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres' needed by initdb does not
belong to
PostgreSQL version 7.1beta4. Check your installation.
However the executable is created by the installation. Anyone had the
same problem? Is there any way to get the db working? Because I
need outer joins I cannot use the 7.03.

- Einar Karttunen