Thread: Starting postmaster

Hi,

     i installed postgresql with rpm files. But i did not
get the /usr/local/pgsql/data dierectory to start the
postmaster. please help.

            Chamal.

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chamal desilva <chamalsl@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>      i installed postgresql with rpm files. But i did not
> get the /usr/local/pgsql/data dierectory to start the
> postmaster. please help.

It gets put in /var/lib/pgsql/data by the RPM install.

You don't have to do anything special--just do

/etc/init.d/postgresql start

as root and it will initdb for you (the first time, not every time of
course).

-Doug