The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres". This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US.UTF-8. The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8.
initdb: directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data" exists but is not empty If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty the directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data" or run initdb with an argument other than "/usr/local/pgsql/data" --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wonder what step I have missed?
-Jan Muhammad
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From: Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] How to run PostgreSQL? To: "Jan Muhammad" <janmuhd@yahoo.com> Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009, 5:26 PM
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On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 04:38:59AM -0700, Jan Muhammad wrote: > Hi, > > I have just downloaded, installed/configured postgresql version 8.2.11 on Fedora Core 6. While reading through the installation manual have setup most of its parts; now while trying to run datebase server with the command:?? > $ postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
