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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: could not open file "global/pg_database"
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Msg-id 20071018162537.GF29379@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to could not open file "global/pg_database"  (Sylvain Brohee <sylvain@scmbb.ulb.ac.be>)
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Sylvain Brohee wrote:

> If I try create a database
>
> createdb testdb
>
> createdb: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL:  could not open
> file "global/pg_database": No such file or directory

That's pretty strange.  Is there a global/pg_database file in $PGDATA?
Who's the owner?

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