Re: initdb error

From: David Noel <david(dot)i(dot)noel(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>, PGSQL Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: initdb error
Date: 2012-12-14 10:58:26
Message-ID: CAHAXwYAXdNJjrv8oPKro0hTTnFdk9HnXJshWPOvz4=tJiYViBQ@mail.gmail.com
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> Did you use ports to install postgresql?

Yes

> What is the version of postgresql and freebsd you are using?

postgresql client and server v. 9.2.2. If all else fails I could try
downgrading to a previous version of postgres.

FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p5

> I am getting a different output while running
> the initdb command through the rc script, and it's not using the -D path to
> initialize the cluster, it falls back to the default location
> /usr/local/pgsql/data . Setting postgresql_data="/usr/local/pgsql1/data"
> in /etc/rc.conf makes it initialize at the right location . I did not had
> to mess with an permissions and the rc commands were all run as root. The
> above was tested on FreeBSD 9.1 with Postgresql 9.2 on UFS.

I didn't have any luck with the rc script but I was able to use it to
get a ktrace dump as root (ktrace as user pgsql doesn't seem to work).
So hopefully that will show something(!)

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