Okay, I'm a *nix newb. A friend just pointed out that I should try ./psql
and that worked. I acted under the assumption that the current directory was
considered part of the path as it is in Windows (unfortunately my current
fiscal lifeblood). Sigh.
rjsjr
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Robert J.
> Sanford, Jr.
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 3:41 PM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] Issues on OSX - Jaguar
>
>
> I find this to be odd, very odd...
>
> I'm running Marc Liyange's binary package for OSX.
>
> I installed Jaguar yesterday and was halfway expecting to have issues with
> PostgreSQL. Well, not quite like I thought I would. I looked at
> the process
> viewer and discovered that the backend really is running. I conneced with
> DbVisualizer and got all of the data out of there. Life is good. But...
>
> I can' run psql from the command line. I get an error that says "psql:
> command not found". At first I thought it might have my path
> screwed up so I
> went directly into /usr/local/bin and tried to run psql from there. Same
> message.
>
> I shut down everything and reinstalled using the latest distro from Marc
> Liyange that is marked as being for Jaguar and got the same thing.
>
> I cannot invoke the postmaster from the command line either. Very odd
> considering that the postmaster is running from startup.
>
> I think I'm missing something here. Any ideas?
>
> rjsjr
>
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