mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
su - postgres
- /usr/local/pgsql/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
+ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
The -D option specifies the location where the data will be stored. You
can use any path you want, it does not have to be under the
PostgreSQL Data Base Management System (formerly known as Postgres, then
as Postgres95).
-This directory contains the development version of 6.6 of the PostgreSQL
+This directory contains the development version of 7.0 of the PostgreSQL
database server. The server is not ANSI SQL compliant, but it gets
closer with every release. After you unzip and untar the distribution
file, look at file INSTALL for the installation notes and file HISTORY