Ubuntu
postgresql-8.4 package

  1. Bug #558319
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 558319

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Klas Kalass (klas-kalass) wrote :

I got the same symptoms as described in the original report.

I found that /etc/postgresql/8.4 was missing, but the script silently exists with status 0 if that directory is missing.

The fix was to create the "main" cluster:

pg_createcluster 8.4 main

I suggest to either change the startup script such that a helpful message is shown if that directory is missing, or to include the createcluster call to the installation script.