Unable to install PostgreSQL

[mark9117]

I am trying to install postgresql on MGA3. It's not going well.

Installing the package appears to work just fine. I've tried it with all 4 flavors of postgresql in the repos:

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rpm -qa | grep postgresql
postgresql-jdbc-9.2.1002-3.mga3
postgresql8.4-8.4.17-1.mga3
postgresql8.4-devel-8.4.17-1.mga3

Trouble is, none of those will start, nor can I access help or man pages. Searching for them results in nothing.

updatedb then,

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 which postgresql
which: no postgresql in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/home/madams/bin:/usr/lib/qt4/bin:/home/madams/bin)


I've also looked into starting it as a service, but it doesn't show up.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?

Thanks.

Mark

[djennings]

The binary for postgres is /usr/bin/psql

To run it as a service you will need to install postgresql8.4-server

[mark9117]

Okay, I'm not exactly in front of the machine in question, so it has taken me almost 2 full days to stumble into that. The network connection on that machine sucks. (Thank you Centurylink!)

I appreciate djennings.


Mark