Thank you very much Shane. It fixed my problem, at least now :-). I installed the pgsql 8.2.5 from source. The user "postgres" has a shortname of "pgsql".
Another question, what's the purpose/advantage to create a user of postgres? May I just create the database under my user account? Shane Ambler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/18/2007 01:27 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject Re: [GENERAL] Problem of installation on Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I am a newbie for pgsql and tried to install it on my MacBookPro > Intel. I got everything correct until creating the user: postgres and > initdb, then the error message showed up for running the db. How to fix > the problem? > > LizheXusComputer:/Users/lizhexu pgsql$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D > /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 & > [1] 17837 > LizheXusComputer:/Users/lizhexu pgsql$ su: logfile: Permission denied > > [1]+ Exit 1 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D > /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 > LizheXusComputer:/Users/lizhexu pgsql$ su lizhexu > Password: > LizheXusComputer:~ lizhexu$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D > /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 & > [1] 17842 > LizheXusComputer:~ lizhexu$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test > createdb: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to > server: No such file or directory > Is the server running locally and accepting > connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? > [1]+ Exit 2 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D > /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 > > > Thank you very much. > > > L > > I would say the problem is when you are logged in as pgsql the >logfile part tries to put the log file in the current working directory (/Users/lizhexu in your example). Your pgsql user doesn't have permission to write the log file there. When you are logged in as lizhexu you don't get permission to read the data files. Also it should be >>logfile changing >logfile to >>/usr/local/pgsql/data/logfile will most likely fix the problem. I would suggest looking into contrib/start-scripts (from the source distro) - look at PostgreSQL.darwin - the comments at the top should get you started. These steps will have postgres running when you startup your Mac. You will need to change PGUSER="postgres" to PGUSER="pgsql", leave the rest and try running it. hint - with startup scripts if you don't want to restart you can use - sudo /Library/StartupItems/PostgreSQL/PostgreSQL start Also which version are you installing and did you get a binary package somewhere or are you building from source? -- Shane Ambler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get Sheeky @ http://Sheeky.Biz
