Re: initdb problem - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: initdb problem
Date
Msg-id 15905.1182435211@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: initdb problem  (Joe Barwell <jbar@es.co.nz>)
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Joe Barwell <jbar@es.co.nz> writes:
> The following, however, makes me suspect it's still a
> problem with initdb:

> acorn$ postgres
> postgres cannot access the server configuration file
> "/Library/PostgreSQL8/data:/postgresql.conf": No such file
> or directory

What's that colon doing in the directory name?  I think you've probably
got a bad value set for PGDATA.

            regards, tom lane

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