Re: Run scripts

[Gilles Sadowski <gilles@harfang.homelinux.org>]

Hi.

> exec chpst -u postgres /usr/bin/postmaster \
>    -D /srv/pgsql/data 2>&1
> 
> Works pretty well, you should change /srv/pgsql/data to whatever the path to 
> your cluster is, and of course, use whatever your postgres user is.

Well, I've just installed postgresql 8.3 and I was fairly lost because I was
expected more automatic configuration to take place (I use Debian).
As far as I can tell, the install just created an empty /var/lib/postgresql
directory.  In the end browsing through the documentation on the
postgresql web site, I tried "initdb". And there it was.
The second thing is that all the programs (like "postmaster") are not in
/usr/bin but in /usr/lib/postgresql/<version>/bin.  Again that's not
indicated in the Debian readme file.
But the usual startup script (in /etc/init.d) is quite complex, so I guess
that for "normal" people, it might have performed everything necessary (?)
at first launch.

Anyways, now it runs ;-)

Thanks,
Gilles