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Antarr Byrd
Asked: 2011-11-20 09:20:32 +0800 CST

Install postgresql on fedora 16 for use with Rails3

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I'm trying to install posgresql on F16 to work with my rails installation. Using this guide

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/YUM_Installation#Initialize

But when I run service postgresql initdb I get this error

Unknown operation initdb

fedora postgresql ruby-on-rails-3

3 Answers

  1. Fedora 16 has migrated to systemd from traditional init.d layout, so you should run su - postgres -c "PGDATA=/var/lib/pgsql/data initdb" directly, see Fedora wiki

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  2. Reading the link you provide it says 

    For PostgreSQL version 9.0 and above, the <name> is postgresql-9.0...

    and later is says

    service <name> initdb

    so I'm guessing you want 

    service postgresql-9.0 initdb
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  3. You can now use sudo postgresql-setup initdb.

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