I began with a laptop, installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. I do not know what is included or not on this version. I downloaded some RPMs from RedHat.com and used tech support to install all of them. I do not know what all the RPM does, whether it goes to completion or just unzips some compressed files. I found a book about PostgreSQL for a previous version and used it. After using Red Hat technical support I used the book. I modified the bash_profile for user account postgres, and my personal user account according to instructions in the book. I get error messages concerning these files.
I am kind of lost about PostgreSQL but if you will help me I will persevere.
I have some error messages when trying to create a database using the command: createdb "mydb".
Error message for both of those commands:
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "tmp.PGSQL.5432"? createuser: creation of user "username" failed.
Or if I am trying to create a database I get the error message similar to above but last line says: createdb: database creation failed.
I have created a user account called postgre, without the s on the end. I do not know what ramifications this has.
I noticed after mistyping "postgre" that the username "postgres" was already created.
The version I have installed in 7.3.
Thank you for helping me. Please email me and tell me what I need to do to get it running.
