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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Postgres installataion in SUSE 7.0, lacking dirs i ~postgres/data
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Msg-id 12886.985123360@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Postgres installataion in SUSE 7.0, lacking dirs i ~postgres/data  (Lars Forseth <larsf@powertech.no>)
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Lars Forseth <larsf@powertech.no> writes:
> /usr/bin/postmaster does not find the database system.  Expected to find it
> in the PGDATA directory "~postgres/data", but unable
> to open file with pathname "~postgres/data/base/template1/pg_class".

Looks to me like you're launching postmaster from a plain Bourne shell
that doesn't know the shorthand ~user for user's home directory.  Try
spelling out the exact path name in the invocation script.

            regards, tom lane

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