Ola,
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 john.murdoch@ig.com.br wrote:
> Hello
> I installed the postgre 7.2.3 from rpm files of my distro. (Conectiva8)
> I am trying to execute postmaster, but the console show this message.
> postmaster does not know where to find the database system data.
> You must specify the directory that contains the database system
> either by specifying the -D invocation option or by setting the
> PGDATA environment variable.
> and I don't know what directory is this PGDATA.
> Thanks for your time
Did you have 4 minutes do read a simple documentation? I guess
not. :)
./initdb ../data
./pg_ctl -D ../data start
[]s
Ricardo