"Flavio Hallais" <fhallais(at)intco(dot)com> writes:
> initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> ...
> initdb failed
By default, initdb is the strong silent type :-( ... if it fails you
will get no useful indication why. Please try it like this:
initdb -d [other options as usual] 2>init.err
and send us the last few dozen lines of init.err.
regards, tom lane