Re: Postgre and Redhat 7.0

The only advice I can give you is the advice given to me when I was having
trouble installing postgresql:

INSTALL from the tarball and not the RPM. All kinds of little wierd
problems went away when I did this.

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>Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 14:04:23 -0800
>From: Steve Bradley <skb2(at)we(dot)mediaone(dot)net>
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>Subject: [NOVICE] Postgre and Redhat 7.0
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>Hello everyone I am a complete newbie to postgre. I am having a problem
>logging into the postgre user file in RH 7.0 when I try to do su postgre
>I get a bash prompt. Also on the postgre website the directories being
>used are different than the ones RH has set up where the documentation
>on the website suggests /usr/local/psgl/bin/psql RH has it setup as
>/var/lib/pgsql is it ok to use the lib directories for this or should I
>make directories and relocate the executable and othe files psql need.
>
>By the way I installed these as rpms from Redhat and they did a lot of
>things automatically and I have no clue as to what goes where. How do I
>log into the user postgre that redhat made for me. Are there any docs
>out there that will show me how to do this I have searched the net far
>and wide no luck and I cant seem to get the info from any of the man
>pages and docs that were included with the rpm's or am i looking in the
>wrong place.
>
>Any help[would be greatly appreciated I am using Postgre 7.0.2 and are
>there any websites out there that anyone can refer a clueless complete
>newbie to get up and running Postgre on a RH distro.
>
>Thanks in Advance
>
>SB
>
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