I had the problem as well. After some digging, I discovered the
solution.
I built postgre by hand and installed with no problems. Then I got the
same errors. It turns out that postgre was already on my system, and
the executables for initdb and postmaster were located in /usr/bin.
That was in my path before /usr/local/pgsql/bin. So there was a version
conflict. I quickly adjusted my path to loon in pgsql first, and all is
well. A more permanant fix would be to link in the pgsql executables to
/usr/bin, but that is next.
Jim
Donzaemon wrote:
>
> I recently installed postgres 6.5 on RedHat Linux 5.2 and the installation
> seemed to
> go smoothly. When I got to the part where it said to use the initdb command
> it ended with the error
>
> ERROR: pg_atoi: error in "template1": can't parse "template1"
> ERROR: pg_atoi: error in "template1": can't parse "template1"
> syntax error 1 : parse error[postgres@ns1 pgsql]$
>
> I cannot continue beyond that point because it stops and doesn't make the
> pg_database
>
> I anyone knows what I can do to continue I would appreciate the advice...
>
> Thanks,
>
> don@tsutsuji.com