Hello everybody,
We are using postgres at Fermi lab since long. But we have not been able to
successfully install it on one of our red hat machine recently after a lots of
efforts. The OS is Red Hat linux release 5.2(
Appollo), kernal: 2.0.36 (on i686). The installation procedure does not complain
anything, but the initdb fails with following message:
initdb output:
initdb: using /usr/local/pgsql/lib/local1_template1.bki.source as input to create the
template database.
initdb: using /usr/local/pgsql/lib/global1.bki.source as input to create the global
classes.
initdb: using /usr/local/pgsql/lib/pg_hba.conf.sample as the host-based authentication
control file.
We are initializing the database system with username postgres (uid=60).
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
initdb: creating template database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1
Running: postgres -boot -C -F -D/usr/local/pgsql/data -Q template1
syntax error 2305 : parse error
Creating global classes in /base
Running: postgres -boot -C -F -D/usr/local/pgsql/data -Q template1
Adding template1 database to pg_database...
Running: postgres -boot -C -F -D/usr/local/pgsql/data -Q template1 < /tmp/create.4317
ERROR: pg_atoi: error in "template1": can't parse "template1"
ERROR: pg_atoi: error in "template1": can't parse "template1"
initdb: could not log template database
initdb: cleaning up.
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The postgres version is 6.4.2; we are using the same version on a different machine
which has Red Hat-5.0(Hurricane) with kernal 2.0.35 on i586; and it functions smoothly.
Is there any problem with OS? (we have checked almost everything upto IPC, shared
memory settings). Please reply us asap as we are on tight schedule.
Thanks a lot,
Mehul Bhatt
