Joe Barwell <jbar@es.co.nz> writes:
> The following, however, makes me suspect it's still a
> problem with initdb:
> acorn$ postgres
> postgres cannot access the server configuration file
> "/Library/PostgreSQL8/data:/postgresql.conf": No such file
> or directory
What's that colon doing in the directory name? I think you've probably
got a bad value set for PGDATA.
regards, tom lane