Re: 7.1beta4 initdb problem

From: Alessio Bragadini <alessio(at)sevenseas(dot)org>
To: Tim Barnard <tbarnard(at)povn(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 7.1beta4 initdb problem
Date: 2001-02-04 22:13:57
Message-ID: 20010205001357.Q729@abulafia.sevenseas.org
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Tim Barnard:

> The program '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres' needed by initdb does
not belong to PostgreSQL version 7.1beta4. Check your installation.

> Any ideas?

Yes, happened to me, too. You need not to be root, but an unprivileged
user (i.e. postgres). That's the strangest error message in a long
time!

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Alessio F. Bragadini alessio(at)sevenseas(dot)org

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