> From: "Bogdan BALAJ" <axis@interplus.ro>
>
> I'm having some problms when installing PostgreSQL 6.5.3. After =
> configure/make/make install, when I'm looking in installed directory, =
> there isno data subdir.=20
> Erros reprted:
>
> on terminal says:
> psql: error in loading shared libraries: libpq.so.2.0: cannot open =
> shared object
> file: No such file or directory
> createdb: database creation failed on postgres.
This suggests you may still need to run ldconfig
> pgserver.log says:
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster does not find the database system. =
> Expected to
> find it in the PGDATA directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data", but unable to =
> open file
> with pathname "/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1/pg_class".
This suggests you have not run initdb - look at the man pages for
postmaster and postgres - they describe the procedure for initializing
the database.
> I'm running slakware 7.0 with kernel 2.2.13.
>
> probably I'm doing something wrong on install. User/group permisions =
> seems to be correct, also variables like PGDTA, PGLIB ... seems to have =
> right value.
Hope these suggestions are useful
Karl DeBisschop