On Monday 19 September 2005 07:08 am, Sean Davis wrote: > On 9/19/05 12:02 AM, "suresh ramasamy" <suresh.sql@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > thanks for the info Devrim, > > > > by the way i'm newbie, i have followed the steps in the documentation for > > compiling and installation. I'm using FC4. ./cofigure completes > > immediately but the gmake running for nearly the whole day. so decide to > > terminate. (my system configuration is p-III, 733 with 256 MB Ram and > > 80GB hard disk) give me a solution. > > Did you get errors? Compiling may take a while (but a whole day does seem > like a long time). I'm not a linux user, but I think there is an rpm of > postgresql available. > > > if i try the default installation in the FC4, the following error comes. > > what should i do? > > > > postgres > > FATAL: "/var/lib/pgsql/data" is not a valid data directory > > DETAIL: File "/var/lib/pgsql/data/PG > > _VERSION" is missing. > > Did you run initdb? > > I am currently running Postgresql on an FC4 server. There are several RPM packages you can install depending on if you just want to access a databases (on another computer) or also setup the server to create/access a database on your computer. To install posgresql version 8.0.3 # yum install postgresql # yum install postgresql-server Regards Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org