Re: where are the data and log folders of postgresql 8.3 on debian sid?
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 06:28:03PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 10:03:04AM +0800, ????????? wrote:
>> > I have installed postgresql 8.3 from debian package, and i'm reading
>> > the official document from postgresql, the document says after
>> > installing the database, it needs to create data folder and specify
>> > log file to initiate the database, like this:
>> > ---------------
>> > mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
>> > chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
>> > su - postgres
>> > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>> > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &
>> > -----------------
>> > but i cannot find the folder in my debian installation, i think they
>> > are at some location else, where is it? thanks
>
> Taking another look at this, the instructions show to create a
> directory for your data owned by the postgres user, and then to
> run a couple of commands on it, initdb and postgres. My guess
> would be that those would be found in /usr/bin/ and so in the
> root user's path, but in any case should be in some bin/ directory
> somewhere.
>
> Some things to try...
>
> man initdb
> man postgres
> man -k postgres
> dpgk -L PACKAGE_NAME | grep bin/
>
> Or wait a day and use locate initdb, if for some reason you want to know
> where it is. Maybe there's something under /var/, e.g., if the debian
> package has configured a default location for the database.
>
> In any case, you're not starting from scratch (as the upstream docs
> probably assume), you're using debian!
>
> Ken
>
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thank you for your advice, i found in the /etc/postgresql:
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data_directory = '/var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main'
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and i found the /var/log/postgresql
i hope i'm right :)
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