Re: Postgres installataion in SUSE 7.0, lacking dirs i ~postgres/data

Lars Forseth <larsf@powertech.no> writes:
> /usr/bin/postmaster does not find the database system.  Expected to find it
> in the PGDATA directory "~postgres/data", but unable
> to open file with pathname "~postgres/data/base/template1/pg_class".

Looks to me like you're launching postmaster from a plain Bourne shell
that doesn't know the shorthand ~user for user's home directory.  Try
spelling out the exact path name in the invocation script.

            regards, tom lane