km wrote:
nope! i have purposefully deselected postgres 7.4 installation at OS install. then downloaded postgresql sources of 8.1.4 and installed it in /usr/local/pgsql with data dir as /data/pgdata. later , i have set PGDATA to /data/pgdata in startup script from contrib/scripts of sources and placed it in /etc/init.d to be sure, i re-checked with rpm -qa|postgres too which didnt give me any package listing. ps auxww |grep postgresql gives /data/pgdata as the data dir. whats happening ?
Have you tried looking in /var to see what's there? find /var -type f -msize +9999k -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
