"SunMie Won" <sunmiewon(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> Thanks for your response. This is the first and only install of PG on this
> box, so that sounds a bit strange. I have no other installations the check
> for, unless one comes standard with Red Hat 6.0.
One does, I believe. I still think you are invoking the wrong copy of
initdb, probably because the old one is first on your PATH.
Try "which initdb".
regards, tom lane