Re: Installing Postgres

This is not an ownership issue. It does try to install PostgreSQL. It
complains because there is a file or directory in the directory where I
am installing PostgreSQL to. The same thing will happen if I create a
directory called XYZ and place a file or directory inside of XYZ and
then try to install the database.

Thanks,

Lance Campbell
Project Manager/Software Architect
Web Services at Public Affairs
University of Illinois
217.333.0382
http://webservices.uiuc.edu

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From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:48 AM
To: Campbell, Lance
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Installing Postgres

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Campbell, Lance wrote:
> OS: redhat linux
>
> Version of PostgreSQL: 8.2.4
>
>
>
> I had a group that now manages our server set up a directory/partition
> for us to put postgreSQL into. The directory is called pgsql_data.
The
> directory is more than a regular directory. It contains a
subdirectory
> called "lost+found". I would assume this is a logical partition. I
> tried installing postgreSQL directly into this directory but it failed
> since there is a file in this directory, "lost+found". Is there a way
> around this? Worst case scenario I will create a subdirectory called
> data and put the install in there. I would have preferred to put it

It is probably an ownership issue. If this is linux the mount is
probably owned by root. Create a sub directory in pgsql_data that is
owned by postgres called pgsql and install it in there.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> directly into the pgsql_data. There would be no other files that
would
> have gone into the directory/partition other than postgreSQL. Would
it
> be possible for me to install postgreSQL into a sub directory of
> pgsql_data and then move the files up a directory into pgsql_data?

>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Lance Campbell
>
> Project Manager/Software Architect
>
> Web Services at Public Affairs
>
> University of Illinois
>
> 217.333.0382
>
> http://webservices.uiuc.edu
>
>
>
>

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