Re: Dead-end in PostgreSQL 8.0 fresh installation (while

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:57:18 -0300, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:46:26AM -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:46:29 +0200, Jarkko Elfving <jarelf(at)ebaana(dot)net> wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking you're trying to hack too much on your own that the RPMs
> > do automagically. All you should need to do is install the RPMs,
> > start postgresql with the provided init script, and be good to go.
>
> I somewhat agree with this. But this is strange and unexpected:
>
> > > Also I run a /usr/bin/postgres -V but this doesn't give any results.
>
> This should return something like
>
> $ postgres -V
> postgres (PostgreSQL) 8.1devel

Where did you get these RPMs?

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