Martin,

> The prefered way is to use pg_createcluster ....

What installation instructions should I be following?

I do not recall ever hearing of pg_createcluster.

Thanks,

Rick


--- Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Rick Graves [2007-10-31  9:11 -0000]:
> > Having just run this again, I can report that the
> conf
> > files are deposited in the data directory when you
> run
> > initdb.  
> 
> Ah, of course. If you run initdb manually, then you
> cannot expect the
> postgresql-common integration scripts to work
> magically. The prefered
> way is to use pg_createcluster, which will do all
> this shuffling for
> you and register the cluster in the
> postgresql-common structure, init
> scripts, enable the possibility to upgrade it
> painlessly with
> pg_upgradecluster, etc.
> 
> But then I wonder how you managed to get the files
> in /etc/? It seems
> that you once had the default 8.1/main cluster,
> deleted the data
> directory in /var/lib, but not the configuration
> directory in /etc/,
> and then used initdb to re-create the data dir in
> /var/?
> 
> > Also, for the postgresql server to start, I must
> copy
> > server.crt, server.key and root.crt from
> > /var/lib/postgresql/8.1/main to the data
> directory,
> > and change the owner of those files to postgres.
> > Otherwise, no go.  
> 
> pg_createcluster does all this.
> 
> > For a database sever, I think most real database
> administrators
> > would choose a long term support version over
> unstable!
> 
> Absolutely!
> 
> -- 
> no warning about decoy conf files
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138793
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