Re: help me pls

From: Sean Davis <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov>
To: <suresh(dot)sql(at)gmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: help me pls
Date: 2005-09-19 11:08:03
Message-ID: BF541453.EC2F%sdavis2@mail.nih.gov
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On 9/19/05 12:02 AM, "suresh ramasamy" <suresh(dot)sql(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> thanks for the info Devrim,
>
> by the way i'm newbie, i have followed the steps in the documentation for
> compiling and installation. I'm using FC4. ./cofigure completes immediately
> but the gmake running for nearly the whole day. so decide to terminate. (my
> system configuration is p-III, 733 with 256 MB Ram and 80GB hard disk) give
> me a solution.

Did you get errors? Compiling may take a while (but a whole day does seem
like a long time). I'm not a linux user, but I think there is an rpm of
postgresql available.

> if i try the default installation in the FC4, the following error comes. what
> should i do?
>
> postgres
> FATAL: "/var/lib/pgsql/data" is not a valid data directory
> DETAIL: File "/var/lib/pgsql/data/PG
> _VERSION" is missing.

Did you run initdb?

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