Re: Mac OSX Installation - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Bob McConnell
Subject Re: Mac OSX Installation
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Msg-id 4769D864.4060306@lightlink.com
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In response to Mac OSX Installation  (Richard Chirgwin <richard.chirgwin@marketclarity.com.au>)
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Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have installed Postgresql from the William Kyngesbury distribution
> (http://www.kyngchaos.com/wiki/software:postgres)
>
> I do not get any errors starting the server, but it fails on createdb:
> "No such file or directory".
>
> I note that the initdb did not create a postgres.conf file in
> /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> Richard

Does the user you ran initdb under have write and execute permissions in
the data directory? That is the most common cause of this problem in a
Unix style environment.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP


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