Hello All
Thanks for all the suggestions. I was able to configire and compile it.
I set the data directory to one of my directories, use 'initdb'
successfully. I am also able to start the pgsql and can see that it is
running on port 4444 as I had configured.
Now the problem is when I try to create a db using createdb, I get the
error:
createdb: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL: role "ritesh"
does not exist
I am not sure what is that?
Doing a google gave me:
http://pgfoundry.org/pipermail/pgcluster-general/2006-May/000699.html
> You must be postgres user to run this. Another option might be
passing > a user switch .
I cannot run with postgres as I dont have access and I am not sure how
to use the user switch? Any help?
I guess once I am through with this, I am successful!
Ritesh
Richard Huxton wrote:
Gurjeet Singh wrote:
You are talking about /usr/local/data; so I assume that you are trying
this
on Linux or some other Nixen.
You just need to use the --prefix option to configure... Here's what I
typically do:
Download/'CVS checkout' the sources. Enter the source directory, and
invoke
configure like this:
./configure --enable-debug --prefix `pwd`/db CFLAGS=-O0
And the run 'make' and 'make install'. This will install the data in your
<sources_dir>/db/data.
And then of course you'll need to remember to set your port to something
other than 5432, and tweak your PATH, PGPORT etc or define some
aliases/wrappers so you don't end up running against the default
installation. Oh, and you'll need to tweak the startup scripts and
logging configuration so you get logs somewhere useful.
I think Tom Lane has a script that lets him switch between different
installations (versions in his case). I only tend to have two versions
active at any one time, so I just define an alias for psql.
alias psql82='/usr/local/pgsql82/bin/psql -p 5434'
On the rare occasion when I run an 8.2 createdb I need to remember to
put the port number in manually of course.
HTH
