On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Simon Connah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if this is the wrong list, I debated whether to post it to ports but > as it is not a problem with the port itself and is more a user problem (i.e > I'm being stupid :)) I thought misc was probably more appropriate. > > Anyway I've been trying to get PostgreSQL setup on my 4.3 box and I'm not > having much luck at all. I've followed the instructions in README.OpenBSD > but I think I am missing something very simple here. Any help would be > greatly appreciated.
Over the weekend I had almost the exact same error. In my case it turns out I had forgotten to kill the running postgres process when running initdb. -B

