I bet you already have one flavor of postgresql (7.2.x) installed.
Do an rpm -qa|grep -i post to see if you do.
On Thu, 8 May 2003, Jeff Holle wrote:
> with PostgreSQL 7.3.2.
>
> I'm running linux (mandrake 9.0).
>
> I successfully executed the followed instructions:
>
> ./configure
> make
> su
> make install
> adduser postgres
> mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
> chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
> su - postgres
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data logfile
> 2>&1 &
>
> And failed executing this:
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test
> with this error:
> ERROR: 'autocommit' is not a valid option name
>
> What is the problem?
>
>
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