Re: how to create a database

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: ranjitha ullasa <ranjithaullas(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: how to create a database
Date: 2001-12-10 22:04:09
Message-ID: 20011210140023.R70079-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, [iso-8859-1] ranjitha ullasa wrote:

> hi ,
> i am encoutering the following error while trying to create a database ,
> kindly provide the solution to this as soon as possible,
> regards
> ranjitha
>
> bash-2.05$ createdb sat_demo1
> /Program Files/Mercury Interactive/LoadRunner/bin/sed.exe: Unexpected End-of-file
> psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
> Is the postmaster running locally
> and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432'?
> createdb: database creation failed

For the first message, Are you running under cygwin or something and is
the sed above actually the correct sed? It may just be having problems
with spaces or something too, but it doesn't hurt to check.

The second does seem to imply that the server isn't actually running, have
you started the postmaster?

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