Jim Bryan <gooddayarizona@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Installing with yum, Fedora core 5. Get error: "could > not open file "global/pg_database": No such file or > directory. It seems pretty odd that that would be the first error. " The file exists however, in > /var/lib/pgsql/data/global and contains 3 lines: OK ... > bash-3.1$ su -c 'pg_ctl start -D /usr/local/pgsql/data > -l serverlog' postgres /usr/local is not /var/lib. Perhaps you have an incomplete/corrupt database installation under /usr/local/pgsql/data? I don't believe the postmaster would start if there were nothing there at all, but it certainly doesn't try very hard to check whether every required file is present. regards, tom lane
