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Re: postgresql problem? : etch



On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 16:46 +0530, Erle Pereira wrote:
> these are the two commands I had to use.
> 
> as "postgres" user
> 1. /usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/postgresql/
> 
> as root:
> 2. su -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgresql/
> -l /var/lib/postgresql/logfile start' postgres

AFAIK, this is standard procedure for PGSQL installation (at least from
source distribution).
If you say that in previous setups (from apt) you didn't need to perform
those tasks then it's either a bug or a policy change.

Andrea



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