Thread: help me pls

thanks for the info Devrim,

by the way i'm newbie, i have followed the steps in the documentation for compiling and installation.  I'm using FC4.  ./cofigure completes immediately but the gmake running for nearly the whole day.  so decide to terminate. (my system configuration is p-III, 733 with 256 MB Ram and 80GB hard disk)  give me a solution.

if i try the default installation in the FC4, the following error comes.  what should i do?

 postgres
FATAL:  "/var/lib/pgsql/data" is not a valid data directory
DETAIL:  File "/var/lib/pgsql/data/PG

On 9/19/05 12:02 AM, "suresh ramasamy" <suresh.sql@gmail.com> wrote:

> thanks for the info Devrim,
>
> by the way i'm newbie, i have followed the steps in the documentation for
> compiling and installation.  I'm using FC4.  ./cofigure completes immediately
> but the gmake running for nearly the whole day.  so decide to terminate. (my
> system configuration is p-III, 733 with 256 MB Ram and 80GB hard disk)  give
> me a solution.

Did you get errors?  Compiling may take a while (but a whole day does seem
like a long time).  I'm not a  linux user, but I think there is an rpm of
postgresql available.

> if i try the default installation in the FC4, the following error comes.  what
> should i do?
>
> postgres
> FATAL:  "/var/lib/pgsql/data" is not a valid data directory
> DETAIL:  File "/var/lib/pgsql/data/PG
> _VERSION" is missing.

Did you run initdb?

On Monday 19 September 2005 07:08 am, Sean Davis wrote:
> On 9/19/05 12:02 AM, "suresh ramasamy" <suresh.sql@gmail.com> wrote:
> > thanks for the info Devrim,
> >
> > by the way i'm newbie, i have followed the steps in the documentation for
> > compiling and installation.  I'm using FC4.  ./cofigure completes
> > immediately but the gmake running for nearly the whole day.  so decide to
> > terminate. (my system configuration is p-III, 733 with 256 MB Ram and
> > 80GB hard disk)  give me a solution.
>
> Did you get errors?  Compiling may take a while (but a whole day does seem
> like a long time).  I'm not a  linux user, but I think there is an rpm of
> postgresql available.
>
> > if i try the default installation in the FC4, the following error comes.
> > what should i do?
> >
> > postgres
> > FATAL:  "/var/lib/pgsql/data" is not a valid data directory
> > DETAIL:  File "/var/lib/pgsql/data/PG
> > _VERSION" is missing.
>
> Did you run initdb?
>
>

I am currently running Postgresql on an FC4 server.

There are several RPM packages you can install depending on if you just want
to access a databases (on another computer) or also setup the server to
create/access a database on your computer.

To install posgresql version 8.0.3
# yum install postgresql
# yum install postgresql-server

Regards Neil

hi this following  words from Dinesh did worked for me.  Thanks guys
and really appreciate your help and advice.

PG_DATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data

regards
suresh