Re: pb on installation

From: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Florian Litot <flitot(at)besancon(dot)sema(dot)slb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pb on installation
Date: 2002-09-06 14:09:28
Message-ID: 1031321368.967.33.camel@linda
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On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 13:30, Florian Litot wrote:
> hi
> i try to install postregresql 7.2 on windows nt
> i have got a problem with my installation
>
> when i tape this command :
> $ postmaster -D /usr/share/postgresql/data &
> i have got this error why?
>
> FATAL 1 : File /usr/share/postgresql/data/PG_VERSION is missing. This is
> not a valid directory

Have you run initdb to create the database structure in
/usr/share/postgresql/data? (Read all the INSTALL notes.)

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