Re: [GENERAL] Installation of postgresql-6.5.1 data missing ?

From: Herouth Maoz <herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il>
To: "Jesper K(dot) Pedersen" <biooya(at)post8(dot)tele(dot)dk>, PGSQL general <pgsql-general(at)hub(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Installation of postgresql-6.5.1 data missing ?
Date: 1999-07-25 13:45:31
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At 14:37 +0300 on 24/07/1999, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:

> I have been using a much older version of postgresql and decided to
> "trash" it and go to the 6.5.1beta1
>
> All installation of the server/client/devel went fine - but i am unable
> to install the default database - postgresql-data-X.X.X as i cant find
> any for 6.5.1
>
> Anyone have any help that will get me through this ?
> I cant find any help in the doc's for this problem - so I am sure its
> just that there is some basic "thing" i overlooked.

Were you installing from an RPM perhaps? Common PostgreSQL RPMs were
somehow separated into three packages, though for the life of me I can't
understand why the data package is needed. You should be able to create the
default database using initdb - unless they didn't RPM the initdb
executable?

Herouth

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Herouth Maoz, Internet developer.
Open University of Israel - Telem project
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