Re: problems to install PostgreSQL

Make sure that you initdb the postgresql cluster as the user "postgres"
not  as "root".
So, after configuring, compiling, and installing the source, switch user
to "postgres" and run your initdb command.

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    Husam

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Paolo De Simone
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:05 AM
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: [ADMIN] problems to install PostgreSQL

Hello all,

i'm trying to install postgresql 8.1.3
on AIX 5.2 RISC 6000

the steps
- ./configure
- gmake
- gmake install

are OK

so i created /usr/local/pgsql/data
but when ran
- initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

had the following result :

"
 The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
"postgres".
 This user must also own the server process.

 The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US.
 The default database encoding has accordingly been set to LATIN1.

 fixing permissions on existing directory /usr/local/pgsql/data ... ok
 creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global ... ok
 creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog ... ok
 creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok
 creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog ... ok
 creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_subtrans ... ok
 creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_twophase ... ok
 creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_multixact/members ... ok
 creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_multixact/offsets ... ok
 creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base ... ok
 creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... ok
 creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_tblspc ... ok
 selecting default max_connections ... 10
 selecting default shared_buffers ... 50
 creating configuration files ... ok
 creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... child
process was terminated by signal 11
 initdb: removing contents of data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"
"

I have repeated the installation steps for
8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2 versions
but I obtained the same result


Many thanx to any that can help.



Greetings
paolo


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