Hi Rick,

Rick Graves [2007-11-01 21:28 -0000]:
> So it seems the installation instructions one can
> easily find don't work

Well, they do work. If you stay on upstream's path, then things will
work, but then of course you cannot expect the distro integration bits
to work (like automatic startup in the init scripts, upgrading,
logging into the proper places, default configuration for log
rotation, etc.).

> Should I file another bug on inadequate installation
> instructions?

You can do, or we just retitle this one (which is preferable, I
think).

> It seems adequate instructions are lacking, and if
> that is the case, I would be willing to pitch in and
> write better ones if arrangements could be made to get
> the instructions in front of people actually when they
> install postgresql on ubuntu and/or Debian.

I'd be absolutely happy to improve this. The question is, where to do
it? So far I deliberately don't put the initdb programs into the
$PATH, but pg_* tools are in the path. Would it have helped you if
there was an initdb in the path which told you about the distro tools?

We could also patch the upstream initdb itself to point out
pg_createcluster maybe.

Pitti

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