Did an install on OS X 10.2, using Fink with default settings.
First, it utterly ignores $PGDATA. I can do echo $PGDATA just fine,
but when I do
initdb
I get
initdb: You must identify where the the data for this database
system will reside. Do this with either a -D invocation
option or a PGDATA environment variable.
So now I do
initdb -D ~/databases
which seems to run fine. Then I run the commands it tells me to run:
sudo -u root sudo -u pgsql /sw/bin/pg_ctl \
-D /Users/<me>/databases -l /sw/var/log/postgresql/logfile
start
and I get
shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access
parent directories: Permission denied
postmaster successfully started
alright; now I try all this as postgres:
su postgres
initdb ~/databases
which works fine. Then I do
sudo -u root sudo -u pgsql /sw/bin/pg_ctl \
-D /Users/postgres/databases -l /sw/var/log/postgresql/logfile
start
and I get
postgres% shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot
access parent directories: Permission denied
shell-init:: Too many arguments.
postmaster successfully started
There are other problems, but I'll start with this.
Thanks!
