Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:55:17 -0900 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>, Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> Subject: Re: PostgreSQL setup Message-ID: <200812311055.17889.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <991123400812310732s5f23c072k18571437d9239c84@mail.gmail.com> References: <20081231150648.GA18063@teddy.fas.com> <d356c5630812310715n8fde2f3qdb2ab27827475b9d@mail.gmail.com> <991123400812310732s5f23c072k18571437d9239c84@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 31 December 2008 06:32:58 Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:06 AM, stan <stanb@panix.com> wrote: > > > I have installed PostgreSQL via the ports on a new 7.1 machine. I am > > > > trying > > > > > to set it up. > > > > > > I found: > > > > > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/postgresql.php > > > > > > Whic says to run: > > > > > > su -l pgsql -c initdb > > > > > > But that gives me the following error message: > > > > > > initdb: no data directory specified > > > You must identify the directory where the data for this database system > > > will reside. Do this with either the invocation option -D or the > > > environment variable PGDATA. > > Go into the port directory for postgresql71 and so "make deinstall". After > that, do > > script -a ~/PGSQL-INSTALL.txt make install clean > > Once that is done, go ito the ~/PGSQL-INSTALL.txt and read the lines > towards the bottom. Those are sometimes calles Post-install message. They > tell you exactly what to do on FreeBSD. Erm, that's kind of a round-about way to accomplish: cat /usr/local/share/doc/postgresql/README-server or: cat /var/db/pkg/postgresql-server*/+DISPLAY -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.
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