On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Rajesh Anandarajan wrote:
> Sir,
>
> Because I found the articles about you SQL server very interesting I
> decided to try it. But after the installation is over I am encountering
> problem with it. Since in your web site no e-mail contacts other than
> this is specified I am giving a try.
Please check out the 'mailing lists' section of our web site, which
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> I installed it in Linux (Redhat 5.2). After Successful completion when
> I gave initdb as you said in the guide, it shows an error. I will paste
> the lines it shows exactly in the order below. Hoping I will get some
> help from that side.
the problems you show below remind me of problems I had under
FreeBSD when trying to install on a system where an older version's
libraries still existed. Did you happen to install a copy of PostgreSQL
that came with Redhat, before you installed the one you are trying to get
working here?
>
> Thank you
>
> Rajesh
>
> [postgres@raj bin]$ ./initdb
>
> We are initializing the database system with username postgres
> (uid=100).
> This user will own all the files and must also own the server process.
>
> Creating Postgres database system directory /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> Creating Postgres database system directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base
>
> Creating template database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1
> syntax error 2299 : parse error
> Creating global classes in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base
>
> Adding template1 database to pg_database...
>
> Vacuuming template1
> Creating public pg_user view
> mv: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1/xpg_user: No such file or
> directory
> Creating view pg_rules
> mv: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1/xpg_rules: No such file or
> directory
> Creating view pg_views
> mv: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1/xpg_views: No such file or
> directory
> Creating view pg_tables
> mv: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1/xpg_tables: No such file or
> directory
> Creating view pg_indexes
> mv: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1/xpg_indexes: No such file or
> directory
> Loading pg_description
> [postgres@raj bin]$
>
>
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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