Re: I know installation questions are boring ... - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alexander Jerusalem
Subject Re: I know installation questions are boring ...
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Msg-id 4.3.2.7.0.20001117204707.00afc700@pop.gmx.net
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In response to Re: I know installation questions are boring ...  (John Gray <jgray@beansindustry.co.uk>)
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I don't have a file called postmaster in my pgsql/bin directory so I
thought it must be postgres. And it looks like it is the right file, it
just doesn't work...

At 12:22 17.11.00, John Gray wrote:

> > Unfortunately I'm running into another problem. Now when I try to start up
> > the postmaster by entering
> > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
>
>Shouldn't this be /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster?
>  The postgres binary is the actual backend which AIUI won't do what
>you want if you start it by hand.
>
>John
>
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