Debian and Postgres 9.0

Fernando Duran liberosec-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Tue Apr 19 16:10:46 UTC 2011


Weird, it seems you installed (or it was already installed) a cluster facility in postgres and now psql is asking which cluster to use. I don't know about clusters, what's the output of?:

dpkg --get-selections |grep postgres


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Fernando Duran
http://www.fduran.com


--- On Tue, 4/19/11, William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> From: William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Debian and Postgres 9.0
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 11:46 AM
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 08:15:09AM
> -0700, Fernando Duran wrote:
> 
> >Then just change to the postgres user:
> >
> ># su postgres -
> >
> >And call the postgres command line utility:
> >
> >$ psql
> 
> Installation is easy - it is Debian, after all.  I had
> to create a
> password for the postgres user (not obvious), but once I
> was in I get
> this:
> 
> ~ ] psql
> Error: No existing local cluster is suitable as a default
> target. Please
> see man pg_wrapper(1) how to specify one.)
> 
> Reading man pg_wrapper(1) is not as helpful as I have
> hoped. How (and
> where) do I specify a local cluster, on Debian, for
> 9.0?  The docs are
> not clear, and I have read reams of advice just like the
> very helpful
> advice above.  So far, all of it is missing steps
> somewhere, or the
> commands are not valid under my version or distro.
> -- 
> 
> yours,
> 
> William
> 
> 
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