Well, good news and bad news. It seems to work for me. Sorry.
This is a sparc10 running 2.0.30. Yes, very old. Soon I can
give Red hat 6.0 a try on an Ultra10.
[szybist@anka post]$ initdb
We are initializing the database system with username szybist (uid=501).
This user will own all the files and must also own the server process.
Creating Postgres database system directory /home/szybist/post/data/base
Creating template database in /home/szybist/post/data/base/template1
Creating global classes in /home/szybist/post/data/base
Adding template1 database to pg_database...
Vacuuming template1
Creating public pg_user view
Creating view pg_rules
Creating view pg_views
Creating view pg_tables
Creating view pg_indexes
Loading pg_description
[szybist@anka post]$ postgres template1
POSTGRES backend interactive interface
$Revision: 1.115 $ $Date: 1999/05/22 17:47:49 $
backend> create database bench
blank 1: datname (typeid = 19, len = 32, typmod = -1, byval = f) 2: datdba (typeid = 23, len =
4,typmod = -1, byval = t) 3: encoding (typeid = 23, len = 4, typmod = -1, byval = t) 4: datpath
(typeid= 25, len = -1, typmod = -1, byval = f) ----
backend>
