Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Tom Lane wrote: >> I think what may be happening here is that a postgres executable expects >> to find itself in a full installation tree, ie if it's in /someplace/bin >> then the timezone files are in /someplace/share, etc. Did you do a full >> "make install" after building, or did you just copy the postgres >> executable? > I just copied it as discussed in the original mail to avoid that make > install kills the 8.4 production RPM version: > cp ./src/backend/postgres /bin/postgres-8.3.11 Definitely not going to work. Instead, configure with --prefix set to /someplace/harmless, make, make install, execute from /someplace/harmless/bin/. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
