On Saturday 18 October 2003 04:39 am, Eric M. Wulff wrote:
> Hi, I am relatively new to Linux and just installed postgres via rpms.
> I think. However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to start up
> postmaster or psql.
Well, Eric, you got some bad advice already. I hope you didn't do mo
Eric M. Wulff wrote:
Great! I very much appreciate your help. I'm unclear on what I need to
set PGDATA or the -D option with in order to run postmaster. Any idea?
The line you need with postmaster should be like :
postmaster -i -D /PATH/WHERE/FIND/DATA/FILES -S
The /PATH/WHERE/FIND/DATA/FILE
Great! I very much appreciate your help. I'm unclear on what I need to
set PGDATA or the -D option with in order to run postmaster. Any idea?
Here is what I'm trying and the errors given...
$ postmaster
"postmaster does not know where to find the database system data.
You must specify the dir
