In response to Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Monday 18 October 2010 7:46:21 am Torsten Z_hlsdorff wrote: > >> So: any idea why the database is not visible? And how do get rid of the > >> "non-existing" databases ;) > > > My guess is that you have more than one installation of Postgres. The initdb is > > working on one cluster and your psql is pointing at another. > > Yeah. In particular, since I didn't see any server start or stop > commands in this sequence, it looks like the psql calls are talking to > some pre-existing server process that's using a pre-existing database > directory somewhere else. Unless you tweak settings in /etc/rc.conf, FreeBSD's install of Postgres will start up talking to the DB in /usr/local/pgsql (if you start it using FreeBSD's rc system) The port provides the variable postgresql_data which can be used to change the rc script's behavior. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
