Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:06:48 -0500 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: PostgreSQL setup Message-ID: <20081231150648.GA18063@teddy.fas.com>
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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? -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
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