Thanks, Tom,
My /etc/ld.so.conf didn't have /opt/postgresql/lib in it, yet when I
renamed /opt/postgresql (which was v7.2.2) to something else, the initdb
succeeded. I'm not sure why it went looking up there...
Thanks again,
Gordon.
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