"Aristide Aragon" <aristide(at)lionking(dot)org> writes:
> I use "man -k" I get:
> | whatis: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
> | whatis: /usr/local/pgsql/man/whatis: No such file or directory
I believe most versions of man -k expect to find indexes in the man
directories. Look around to see if there's a utility called something
like "mkwhatis" that you need to run. ("man man" will probably point you
to it.)
regards, tom lane