Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:17:06 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PostgreSQL setup Message-ID: <13963197@bb.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <20081231150648.GA18063@teddy.fas.com> (stan's message of "Wed\, 31 Dec 2008 10\:06\:48 -0500") References: <20081231150648.GA18063@teddy.fas.com>
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stan <stanb@panix.com> writes: > I have installed PostgreSQL via the ports on a new 7.1 machine. I am trying > to set it up. > > I found: > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/postgresql.php > > Whic says to run: > > su -l pgsql -c initdb > > But that gives me the following error message: > > initdb: no data directory specified > You must identify the directory where the data for this database system > will reside. Do this with either the invocation option -D or the > environment variable PGDATA. > > But when I try: > > # su -l pgsql -c initdb -D /usr/local/postgres > > I get: > > Illegal option -D > > What am I doing wrong? You haven't read a post-install message. ;-) You may read it now: ----- $ less /usr/ports/databases/postgresql83-server/files/pkg-message-server.in ----- WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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