Re: pb on installation

On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 13:30, Florian Litot wrote:
> hi
> i try to install postregresql 7.2 on windows nt
> i have got a problem with my installation
>
>   when i tape this command :
> $ postmaster -D /usr/share/postgresql/data &
> i have got this error why?
>
>   FATAL 1 : File /usr/share/postgresql/data/PG_VERSION is missing. This is
>   not a valid directory

Have you run initdb to create the database structure in
/usr/share/postgresql/data?  (Read all the INSTALL notes.)

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