Re: First time installing

From: Hrvoje Zokovic <hzokovic(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Ron Watkins <rwatki(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: First time installing
Date: 2018-02-21 20:47:02
Message-ID: 6837eabf-45df-7841-9423-516a0e460e33@gmail.com
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Typically installing postgres to your OS creates an "initial DB" and
starts the
postgres server daemon running. If not then you'll need to run initdb
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/app-initdb.html
HTH
Hrvoje

On 21.02.18. 21:20, Ron Watkins wrote:
>
> Trying to follow documentation. I installed RPM’s but unable to
> connect to server…
>
> CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
>
> Package postgresql10-10.2-1PGDG.rhel7.x86_64 already installed and
> latest version
>
> Package postgresql10-server-10.2-1PGDG.rhel7.x86_64 already installed
> and latest version
>
> # su - postgres
>
> -bash-4.2$ psql
>
> psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
>
>         Is the server running locally and accepting
>
>         connections on Unix domain socket
> "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>
> There are no files under /var/run/post*
>
> What am I missing here?
>

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