I installed Red Hat 5.2 EL. During the install I select postgresql and this
versoin was installed: postgresql-8.1.11-1.el5_1.1.
1. I started postgresql as follows:
initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
2. I started the database server as follows:
/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/lib/pgsql/data -l logfile start
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:57 -0700, Marc Fromm wrote:
> When I check that it is all running with ps command I get:
> 324 pts/1S 0:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
>
> When I did the same setps in fedora 8 the postmaster was started on a
> port
> 1703 ?S 0:01 /usr
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 11:21 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> There's an initidb function built into the /etc/init.d/postgresql
> script you can use:
>
> sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql initdb
It won't work in pre 8.2 releases.
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Marc Fromm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
> I was following the instructions a listed in the 8.1 docs at postgresql.org,
> which worked great on fedora.
I'm using the PGDG 8.3.3 rpms on Centos 5.2 mysql. Those do have
initdb. On older pgsql
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:36 AM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>
>> Oh yeah, please note that the proper way to start and stop services on
>> RH oses is via the service command:
>>
>> service postgresql start
>> service postgresql initdb
>>
>> etc..
>
> Scott,
>
> How doe
Scott Marlowe wrote:
Oh yeah, please note that the proper way to start and stop services on
RH oses is via the service command:
service postgresql start
service postgresql initdb
etc...
Scott,
How does the above compare with using postmaster to start PostgreSQL?
I tried in the past to use
Oh yeah, please note that the proper way to start and stop services on
RH oses is via the service command:
service postgresql start
service postgresql initdb
etc...
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Marc Fromm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I installed Red Hat 5.2 EL. During the install I select postgresql and this
> versoin was installed: postgresql-8.1.11-1.el5_1.1.
>
> 1. I started postgresql as follows:
> initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
There's an initidb
