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From: mao@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Olson)
Subject: Re: problems with initial createdb
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Aug 91 23:59:43 PST."
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 91 08:40:40 PDT

did initdb run successfully?  if so, the directory

	$POSTGRESHOME/data/base/template1

should exist.  if this doesn't exist, you need to kill the postmaster you
have running, then do

	% rm -rf $POSTGRESHOME/data
	% setenv POSTGRESHOME <whatever>
	% $POSTGRESHOME/bin/initdb

and restart the postmaster.  createdb should then work.  the trick is that
POSTGRESHOME needs to be set before initdb is run (which means before you
type Make install); the documentation doesn't say this.

					mike olson
					postgres research group
					uc berkeley
					mao@postgres.berkeley.edu