I am working for a company in Japan. I have two RedHat 6.1J machines that I want Postgres on. On one of them, I installed postgresql 7.0.2 RPMs off of a CD I received, and everything works fine. The second (same OS), has given me nothing but trouble. I installed the RPMs, and then when I tried to use "createdb", it protested "MultiByte strings (MB) must be enabled to use this function". All the scoop I could find about that talked about using --enable-multibyte during configure before compilation. Hmm - can't do that with an RPM. So I removed the RPMs, downloaded the source for 7.1.1, configured, compiled, and installed, dutifully following the instructions in postgresql.org's multibyte.html document. These are the commands I used: ./configure --enable-multibyte=EUC_JP --with-perl --with-odbc make make install su postgres /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -E EUC_JP /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
Up to that point, everything was fine, except that the installation instructions seem to think that /usr/local/pgsql/bin would somehow be added to $PATH (all the examples of using commands specify no path). But then, the first time I tried createdb, it said "/usr/bin/postgres: cannot locate executable" - why it wasn't looking in /usr/local/pgsql/bin I don't know. So I copied /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres to /usr/bin - if that is a bad idea, someone let me know (I figure when I have to do hacks like copying files and adding things to $PATH after installation, something went wrong, but...). Then I tried createdb again, and got the same message as with the RPMs - "MultiByte strings (MB) must be enabled to use this function"! Argh! Does somebody have any idea what is going wrong? Thanks in advance for any help. -------------------------------- Karen Ellrick S & C Technology, Inc. 1-21-35 Kusatsu-shinmachi Hiroshima 733-0834 Japan (from U.S. 011-81, from Japan 0) 82-293-2838 -------------------------------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl
