Re: Just installed using Fink on OS X. Fails all over

FYI ... PostgreSQL 7.3.x will compile and run on OS X 10.2. A Fink install isn't necessary unless you want to use an older version of PostgreSQL (even then, there are other options than Fink).

I've made step-by-step instructions for a basic 7.3.2 install on OS X 10.2. Contact me off-list if you want them.

- Jeff

>Did an install on OS X 10.2, using Fink with default settings.
>
>First, it utterly ignores $PGDATA. I can do echo $PGDATA just fine,
>but when I do
>
>initdb
>
>I get
>
>initdb: You must identify where the the data for this database
>system will reside. Do this with either a -D invocation
>option or a PGDATA environment variable.
>
>So now I do
>
>initdb -D ~/databases
>
>which seems to run fine. Then I run the commands it tells me to run:
>
> sudo -u root sudo -u pgsql /sw/bin/pg_ctl \
> -D /Users/<me>/databases -l /sw/var/log/postgresql/logfile
>start
>
>and I get
>
>shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access
>parent directories: Permission denied
>postmaster successfully started
>
>alright; now I try all this as postgres:
>
>su postgres
>
>initdb ~/databases
>
>which works fine. Then I do
>
> sudo -u root sudo -u pgsql /sw/bin/pg_ctl \
> -D /Users/postgres/databases -l /sw/var/log/postgresql/logfile
>start
>
>and I get
>
>postgres% shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot
>access parent directories: Permission denied
>shell-init:: Too many arguments.
>postmaster successfully started
>
>There are other problems, but I'll start with this.
>
>Thanks!
>
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