Re: initdb

On 10:06 Tue 19 Jun     , Jeffrey Webster wrote:
>    On 6/17/07, Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej.groups@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>    Hm.  Why not just edit your .bash_profile, or .bashrc?  (I won't go into
>    the details of which to use)
>
>    Add:
>    export PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
>
>    Add the following the line that sets your path:
>    :/usr/local/pgsql/bin
>
>    It should now look something like:
>
>    export PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
>    export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin
>
>    If you put it in .bashrc just use the following to set the variables:
>    . ~/.bashrc
>
>    Any new terminal you open will have those settings immediately.

Solved it in the end, thanks.

Debian puts the executables in /usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/bin/
Once I found that I was OK

Now busy trying to migrate a bodge of a spreadsheet to something usable

Regards, John
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