Problems with initdb 8.0.1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers
From | Rafael Martinez Guerrero |
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Subject | Problems with initdb 8.0.1 |
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Msg-id | 1107343044.13023.35.camel@bbking.uio.no Whole thread Raw |
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Re: Problems with initdb 8.0.1
Re: Problems with initdb 8.0.1 |
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Hello I have a problem running initdb 8.0.1. I get this error message when I try to run this command in my system: ------------------------------------------------------------------- -bash-2.05b$ /local/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the same directory as "/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb@386linuxlibc63". Check your installation. ------------------------------------------------------------------- strace shows this: ------------------------------------------------------------------- ...... ...... getcwd("/", 1024) = 10 chdir("/local/opt/postgresql/bin") = 0 lstat64("initdb", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=82, ...}) = 0 readlink("initdb", "/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb@386linuxlibc63", 1024) = 82 chdir("/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin") = 0 lstat64("initdb@386linuxlibc63", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=47506, ...}) = 0 getcwd("/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin", 1024) = 73 chdir("/") = 0 write(2, "The program \"postgres\" is needed"..., 209The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the same directory as "/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb@386linuxlibc63". Check your installation. ) = 209 exit_group(1) = ? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Some additional information: ---------------------------- We are running a system for administration of third party software on UNIX computers (store). With this system we can compile in a master server versions for different platforms and different versions of the software for a platform, distribution happens automatic. This system is well tested and works without a problem. We have been running the last 8-9 version of postgres in this system without a problem. What the system does is to create a symblink to the version for your machine (among other things). For example: If we install the binaries for postgres under /local/opt/postgresql/bin, initdb in this directory will be a symblink to "/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb@386linuxlibc63 and /local/opt/postgresql/bin/postgres will we a symblink to /local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/postgres@386linuxlibc63. if we are in a linux machine. If we run the same version in a solaris machine: /local/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb --> /local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb@sun4os58 and /local/opt/postgresql/bin/postgres --> /local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/postgres@sun4os58 Solution to the problem?: ------------------------- I solution to this problem will be to look for postgres under the same directory of initdb (/local/opt/postgresql/bin in our example) and not under the directory of the initdb symblink target. Any comment to this? Thanks for your time. -- Rafael Martinez, <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>Center for Information Technology ServicesUniversity of Oslo, Norway
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