On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 9:48:51 am Thom Brown wrote: > On 6 March 2012 17:45, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 9:25:17 am Thom Brown wrote: > >> These are in my env output: > >> > >> PATH=/home/thom/Development/psql/bin/:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/loca > >> l/s bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games > >> PGDATA=/home/thom/Development/data/ > >> PGPORT=5488 > >> > >> This appears in my build script before configure: > >> > >> export PGDATA=$HOME/Development/data/ > >> export PATH=$HOME/Development/psql/bin/:$PATH > >> export PGPORT=5488 > >> > >> And those 3 lines also appear in my .bashrc file without any variation: > >> > >> export PGDATA=$HOME/Development/data/ > >> export PATH=$HOME/Development/psql/bin/:$PATH > >> export PGPORT=5488 > > > > And you are sure there is no pg_ctl or initdb outside > > /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin or /home/thom/Development/psql/bin and in > > your PATH? So that would be no:)? > > > > Just for grins what happens if you try an initdb using an explicit > > reference to the binary /home/thom/Development/psql/bin/initdb and the > > -D > > /home/thom/Development/data/ ? > > thom@swift:~/Development$ /home/thom/Development/psql/bin/initdb -E > 'UTF8' -D /home/thom/Development/data/ > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "thom". > This user must also own the server process. > > The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_GB.UTF-8. > The default text search configuration will be set to "english". > > fixing permissions on existing directory /home/thom/Development/data ... ok > creating subdirectories ... ok > selecting default max_connections ... 10 > selecting default shared_buffers ... 400kB > creating configuration files ... ok > creating template1 database in /home/thom/Development/data/base/1 ... > FATAL: could not remove old lock file "postmaster.pid": No such file > or directory > HINT: The file seems accidentally left over, but it could not be > removed. Please remove the file by hand and try again. > child process exited with exit code 1 > initdb: removing contents of data directory "/home/thom/Development/data" Its official, I'm stumped. Information seems to be persisting between sessions and absent some other cluster then the ones you have indicated I don't where that information is coming from? -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
