| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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| To: | Kurt Buff <kurt(dot)buff(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Release, Postgres v8.3.7 and confusion on a howto |
| Date: | 2009-08-05 19:56:23 |
| Message-ID: | 20090805125303.B60166@megazone.bigpanda.com |
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On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Kurt Buff wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm following this howto:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_hosting_vsftpd_postgresql_freebsd
>
> and can't get past setting up the database.
>
> I've installed postgres, and it starts successfully after an initdb
> [1], but I come to a full stop after the following commands:
>
> it-kbuff-fbsd# su - pgsql
> $ psql system
> psql: FATAL: database "system" does not exist
>
> Huh? Is it a problem with the howto, or a mismatch between the howto
> and version of postgres I'm using, or am I performing a newb stunt?
Actually, I'm not seeing anything in the howto that actually creates the
database they have you trying to connect to. Perhaps doing a
createdb system
after the su but before the psql?
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