I'm trying to install PG 7.4.6 (from Fedora rpms) and keep getting stuck with psql refusing to do anything useful. As a simple example:
----------------------------------- bash-3.00$ createdb postgres CREATE DATABASE bash-3.00$ psql Welcome to psql 7.4.6, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
Type: \copyright for distribution terms \h for help with SQL commands \? for help on internal slash commands \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query \q to quit
postgres=# \l ERROR: relation "pg_catalog.pg_user" does not exist -----------------------------------
The only reference I could find on this error all dealt with copying a database, and suggested using REINDEX. However, the instructions in REINDEX say that I have to start a standalone server with the -P option. This option isn't documented (in the postgres man page) and I cannot get pg_ctl to startup a server with this option - it returns w/o error and no server is running.
I don't see any errors when starting with "service postgresql start" - and if I empty out /var/lib/pgsql, the command initializes the database with no errors.
Can someone give me some pointers on what I'm doing wrong and what I can do to fix it?
Thanks! Steve
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