On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Adrian Klaver wrote:
From a previous post:
POSTGRES=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/@PRGNAM@/$PG_VERSION/bin/postgres
From here:
http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.1/system/postgresql/postgresql.SlackBuild
The desktop runs 32-bit 14.2.
You could also try using pg_ctl to start the server directly:
postgres@salmo:~$ pg_ctl start -D /var/lib/pgsql/10.2/data/
waiting for server to start....2018-02-17 16:43:18.344 PST [6761] LOG: listening on IPv4 address "127.0.0.1", port 5432
2018-02-17 16:43:18.368 PST [6761] LOG: listening on Unix socket
"/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"
2018-02-17 16:43:18.454 PST [6762] LOG: database system was shut down at
2018-02-17 15:53:32 PST
2018-02-17 16:43:18.487 PST [6761] LOG: database system is ready to accept
connections
done
server started
postgres@salmo:~$ 2018-02-17 16:43:29.899 PST [6774] FATAL: role "rshepard"
does not exist
2018-02-17 16:43:31.669 PST [6776] FATAL: role "rshepard" does not exist
So I guess I need to re-learn how to set roles and set one for me for all
databases I own. That's tomorrow morning. Will report results after doing
that.
Thanks, Adrian,
Rich