Hi Jan
initdb: directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data" exists but is not empty If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty the directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data" or run initdb with an argument other than "/usr/local/pgsql/data" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wonder what step I have missed?
Exactly what it says. The directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data" exists and has some data in it. In order to get initdb to use this directory, you need to either delete it, rename it or give initdb a different path other than "/usr/local/pgsql/data".
If you have run initdb before in this directory (and it succeeded) you don't need to do it again. It's possible the package manager/RPM may have run this for you when it installed PgSQL.
If you're setting up a new PostgreSQL server, why are you using 8.2.11? For starters, the 8.3 branch is the most recent, with 8.3.7 being the current release of that branch, but there's also a more recent 8.2 release than the one you've just installed, 8.2.13.
Ray, I agee with your comment; I always prefer source compilation over package management.
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