Re: postgresql problem in woody and sid

[Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 02:31, marco wrote:
> I cannot get postgresql to install :
> 
> Here is the error message:
> 
> Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/lib/postgres/data
> su - postgres -c cd /var/lib/postgres; . ./.bash_profile; LANG=C initdb 
> --encoding UNICODE --pgdata /var/lib/postgres/data
> -su: initdb: command not found
...
> 
> I played around with the .profile and .bash_profile in /var/lib/postgres 
> which were both not exporting the PATH but this did not help.

~postgres/.bash_profile should contain:

    . /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf
    PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/postgresql/bin
    PGDATA=${POSTGRES_DATA:-/var/lib/postgres/data}
    PGLIB=/usr/lib/postgresql/lib
    export PGLIB PGDATA


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