Hi folks, sorry I do not get it right and I have to ask now. I manually compiled PostgreSQL on my Kubuntu machine to /usr/local/opt/ pgsql and did all this stuff like creating a "postgres" user and I have a startup script in /etc/init.d. But if I try to start PostgreSQL by running "sudo /etc/init.d/ postgresql start" it will fail because it tries to write a PID file to "/var/run/postgresql" which does not exist. If I create this directory and set the permissions for postgres to write it works (!), but after the next restart of the machine the directory is already gone. I tried to change the location of the PID target directory in postgresql.conf, but then clients like psql still try to find the PID file in /var/run/ postgresql and fail. What is a good solution for this problem? It also seems that the postgres user won't ever have permissions to write to /var/run so does anybody know how to solve this? With best regards, Sebastian ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
