Re: [SQL] Problems invoking psql. Help please.

[Tomasz Myrta]

Uz.ytkownik Hugh Esco napisa?:

Thank you so much, Mallah, Tomasz Myrta, Luis Sousa,
Achilleus Mantzios, Tom Lane, Bill Eaton and Oliver Elphick.

I have chmod 755 my readpgenv file, and then copied the
shell script suggested by Tomasz Myrta into that file,
yielding these results:

biko:/usr/lib/postgresql/bin# cd /usr/bin
biko:/usr/bin# ./psql -U postgres
No database specified

It's like it should be.

biko:/usr/bin# ./psql -U postgres template1
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/readpgenv: ./etc/postgresql/postgresql.env: No such file
or directory

How should that file read?

Could not execv /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql

If you still want to fight with your postgres, here is content of my (it's default) postgresql.env:
>>BEGIN<<
[ -r /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf ] &&
. /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf

PGDATA=${POSTGRES_DATA:-/var/lib/postgres/data}
PGLIB=/usr/lib/postgresql/lib
PGACCESS_HOME=/usr/lib/postgresql/share/pgaccess
PGHOST=

export PGLIB PGDATA PGACCESS_HOME PGHOST
>>END<<

I think you should just reinstall postgres from .deb package as said Tom Lane. I had never troubles like yours with default .deb package.

Then I changed user from root to postgres,
under which this database had been created:

Psql works also as root, but you should run it as postgres for security reason.


Tomasz Myrta


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