Re: Where is 'createdb'?

["Kevin Burton" <rkevinburton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I watched while the OS was installed and it looked like postgres was installed but the Ubuntu package apparently didn’t install it all or it didn’t install it correctly.

 

From: Steve Crawford [mailto:scrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 4:43 PM
To: Boszormenyi Zoltan
Cc: Kevin Burton; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Where is 'createdb'?

 

On 11/01/2012 02:10 PM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:

2012-11-01 16:32 keltezéssel, Kevin Burton írta:

...I get ‘createdb command not found’. Are the authors out of date? What is the current command?

 

The instructions start with "Once you have Postgres installed...".
Since the command is not available, you don't have Postgres installed.

This is not correct. What it means is that the command you typed is not in your search path or aliased in some way. The command may very well be available elsewhere (see my earlier post in the thread for an example of where Ubuntu places things).

$ which createdb
/usr/bin/createdb
$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/createdb
postgresql-9.1.6-1.fc17.x86_64

Useful on rpm-based distros but I believe the OP is running a Debian-derivative which uses apt.

Cheers,
Steve