Re: Dead-end in PostgreSQL 8.0 fresh installation (while

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:46:26AM -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:46:29 +0200, Jarkko Elfving <jarelf(at)ebaana(dot)net> wrote:

> I'm thinking you're trying to hack too much on your own that the RPMs
> do automagically. All you should need to do is install the RPMs,
> start postgresql with the provided init script, and be good to go.

I somewhat agree with this. But this is strange and unexpected:

> > Also I run a /usr/bin/postgres -V but this doesn't give any results.

This should return something like

$ postgres -V
postgres (PostgreSQL) 8.1devel

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