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From: Vincent Schenkelaars <schenkel@cs.few.eur.nl>
To: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: postgres 4.2 beta installation
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 14:17:31 +0200
Message-ID: <9404121217.AA26461@argon.cs.few.eur.nl> (raw)

> I have tried to build and install postgres 4.2 on sparc 10's running
> 	4.1.3 on several occasions with varying degrees of success.
> 
> 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.

I noticed that there is no longer a reference to PGHOST and PGDATA
envirinment variablkes in the instalation guide. Are these no longer needed?


> In most cases when I attempt to run createdb, I am given an error
> 	message stating that the database model template1 does not exist
> 	(even though initdb completed without complaint). Running
> 	createuser has essentially the same effect. The case in which I
> 	was able to successfully run createuser and createdb was on a
> 	machine I did not have root access on, hence I had to set the
> 	variables BINGRP, BINOWN, LIBGRP, LIBOWN, MANGRP, and MANOWN.
> 

I have not noticed this behaviour. But i did not set all these environment
variables. I installed the system undfer user postgres.


> Has anyone had similar problems? I suspect my next step may be to try
> 	building postgres with the aforementioned variables set to
> 	postgres.
> 
> 

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