On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Dan Wilson wrote: > I ran into the same problem and it turned out to be an outdated version of > psql. Check your path to see if you are accessing the correct version of > psql, pg_dump etc.. it is; ive made sure of that. stripped all the permissions off of the entire 6.4.2 install tree, in fact. manually cat'ing $PGDATA/PG_VERSION shows that its indeed "6.4" instead of "6.5". i can manually echo 6.5 >$PGDATA/PG_VERSION, fixing the connection problem, but i more concerned with why this is occurring. as a sidenote, 'initdb' doesnt appear to be creating the proper pg_* tables; pg_user doesnt exist. im starting to think the compile went bad... there also seems to be an ongoing problem with psql and importing TEXT fields via COPY. i can import a relatively large (~490k entries ) table w/o text fields just fine, but importing an 11k entry table _with_ text entries fails with a buffer overflow. this has happened since pgsql 6.3.2 --- Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.toodarkpark.org "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
