Re: Install problems for postgresql-8.4.1

Don Fox <donfox1@mac.com> writes:
> bash-3.2$ createdb -T template1 fromtemp0db
> Bus error
> bash-3.2$

This appears to be the createdb program itself crashing, not the server.
That cuts down the alternatives quite a lot, because createdb isn't
much; it basically just tries to connect via libpq and send a CREATE
DATABASE command to the server.  My first thought is that you have a
corrupt libpq.so, or one that is incompatible with your createdb
executable.  You could check some of the more obvious causes by
seeing what "file" and "otool -L" have to say about createdb and
libpq.so.

            regards, tom lane