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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Vincent Schenkelaars <schenkel@cs.few.eur.nl>
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: postgres 4.2 beta installation
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 10:42:34 -0700
Message-ID: <199404121742.KAA16548@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9404121217.AA26461@argon.cs.few.eur.nl>

Vincent Schenkelaars <schenkel@cs.few.eur.nl> 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 <insert random factor here>...  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.
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  Paul M. Aoki  |  CS Div., Dept. of EECS, UCB  |  aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
                |  Berkeley, CA 94720           |  ...!uunet!ucbvax!aoki

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