Tim Barnard:
> The program '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres' needed by initdb does
not belong to PostgreSQL version 7.1beta4. Check your installation.
> Any ideas?
Yes, happened to me, too. You need not to be root, but an unprivileged
user (i.e. postgres). That's the strangest error message in
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> Probably initdb should have its own check for being run as root;
>> this seems cleaner than reorganizing the checks in the postgres
>> executable.
> I does have that check, but unfortunately that check requires pg_id, and
> findin
Tom Lane writes:
> Probably initdb should have its own check for being run as root;
> this seems cleaner than reorganizing the checks in the postgres
> executable.
I does have that check, but unfortunately that check requires pg_id, and
finding the right pg_id requires finding the right postgres
Tim Barnard writes:
> Well, I was logged in as postgres when this occured.
> I managed to resolve it by changing permissions on the /progs
> directory to rwx. It had been r-x. Strange error message for a permissions
> problem on a destination directory!
I'm not sure I follow. Given that executi
rew me off :-)
Regards,
Tim
- Original Message -
From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Tim Barnard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 7:54 PM
Subject: Re
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tim Barnard writes:
>> The program '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres' needed by initdb does not
>> belong to PostgreSQL version 7.1beta4. Check your installation.
> Can you run 'sh -x initdb ...' and show me the output? Some platform
> information woul
