Return-Path: owner-postman Delivery-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 14:11:54 -0700 Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.6.3) with SMTP id KAA08158 for postgres-redist; Tue, 12 Apr 1994 10:42:38 -0700 Resent-From: POSTGRES mailing list Resent-Message-Id: <199404121742.KAA08158@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-postman@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.149.14]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.6.3) with ESMTP id KAA08149 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 1994 10:42:37 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.1B) with SMTP id KAA16548; Tue, 12 Apr 1994 10:42:34 -0700 Message-Id: <199404121742.KAA16548@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) To: Vincent Schenkelaars Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: postgres 4.2 beta installation Reply-To: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 12 Apr 94 14:17:31 +0200 <9404121217.AA26461@argon.cs.few.eur.nl> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 10:42:34 -0700 X-Sender: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Resent-To: postgres-redist@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Mts: smtp Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 10:42:38 -0700 Resent-XMts: smtp Vincent Schenkelaars writes: > > In each case, initdb completes successfully. In each case when > > postmaster is run it core dumps. In each case if I run postmaster > > by specifying its full path length, postmaster will run. > I have the same problems. I'm runiing on a Sparc IPC running SunOS 4.1.3 > looks like there is something strange with the SunOS port. or your environment, or the polarity of the neutron flow in your IPC, or ... it's hard to tell -- other outside people have successfully installed it. i start up postmaster on sparcs using $PATH all the time. (i trust you guys aren't deviating from the instructions in some obvious way, like using gcc or something. i guarantee that gcc won't work for this on any RISC machine.) > I noticed that there is no longer a reference to PGHOST and PGDATA > envirinment variablkes in the instalation guide. Are these no longer needed? the short answer: they are both documented in the reference manual. the long answer: they both exist and have the same meaning. i have no idea why they aren't mentioned in the installation notes, but now that i think about it, they shouldn't be necessary if you correctly set POSTGRESDIR in your Makefile.global, because this sets the right compiled-in path. if you then move things around you will have to set PGDATA; likewise, if you used to use 4.1 and habitually set PGDATA to the location of the 4.1 data, you will have to unset it or change it. -- Paul M. Aoki | CS Div., Dept. of EECS, UCB | aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU | Berkeley, CA 94720 | ...!uunet!ucbvax!aoki