Have you run "initdb" as the PostgreSQL superuser?
If you are just installing 6.3.2 you may want to download the latest version
(6.4.2) from www.postgresql.org
Francisco Javier wrote:
> Hi there ... I'm trying to install postgresql-6.3.2 on a Linux machine.
> Everything seems to be good but the install process (configure, make all,
> make install) do not create the data directory in my psql directory.
> As postgres superuser I do ...
>
> ./configure --prefix=/home/service/postgres
> make all
> make install
>
> Thanx for all ...
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