Re: Installed PostgreSQL-11 in Ubuntu 18.04.02 Server Edition: No existing local cluster is suitable as a default target

El día Wednesday, September 18, 2019 a las 11:50:45AM +0200, Marco Ippolito escribió:

> I installed PostgreSQL-11 in Ubuntu 18.04.02 Server Edition using package
> manager: sudo apt-get install postgresql-11. But now I'm not able to call
> psql:
>
> (base) marco(at)pc:~$ sudo su -l postgres
> [sudo] password for marco:
> No directory, logging in with HOME=/
> postgres(at)pc:/$ psql
> Warning: No existing local cluster is suitable as a default target.
> Please
> see man pg_wrapper(1) how to specify one.
> Error: You must install at least one postgresql-client-<version> package
> postgres(at)pc:/$
>
> I tried to specify the port to use but it asks for a postgresql-client:
>
> (base) marco(at)pc:~$ sudo -u postgres /usr/bin/psql -p 5432
> Error: You must install at least one postgresql-client-<version> package
>
> But the latest postgresql-client is already installed:
>
> (base) marco(at)pc:~$ sudo apt-get install postgresql-client-11
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> postgresql-client-11 is already the newest version (11.5-1.pgdg18.04+1).
> 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
>
> How to solve the problem? Looking forward to your kind help.
> Marco

Have you setup and started any PG cluster? See
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/runtime.html
(chapter 18. Server Setup and Operation).

matthias

--
Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru(at)unixarea(dot)de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045
Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub
May, 9: Спаси́бо освободители! Thank you very much, Russian liberators!