[Pgcluster-general] Pgcluster pgcluster-1.5.0rc14 install questions

[Christian Dannemann]

Hi Bob,

>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm running Postgresql 8.1.3 on Linux 2.6.5-7.282-s390x and tried to 
> install pgcluster-1.5.0rc14 and observed several things.
>
> 1. The Pgcluster install created a pgcluster-1.5.0rc14 directory where 
> a lot of binary files were placed. It also replaced several Postgresql 
> binaries in /usr/local/pgsql. Is this necessary or can I create a 
> completely separate directory for PGDATA and LD_LIBRARY_PATH? This 
> caused a problem when I backed out the Pgcluster install and tried to 
> perform a createuser and got "createuser: creation of new role failed: 
> ERROR:  This query is not permitted when all replication servers fell 
> down." I had to restore my /usr/local/pgsql directory from systems 
> backups.
>
your PGDATA can be anywhere you like. You don't want to use createuser 
when the cluster isn't running - the error message you get tells you why :-)
>
> 2. Is pgcluster-1.5.0rc14 the version I should be using with 
> Postgresql 8.1.3? I see that pgcluster-1.7.0rc3 is out, should I use 
> that instead?
>
1.5.0rc14 is fine - it uses postgresql 8.1.3.
>
> 3. If I install pgcluster-1.5.0rc14, do I need to install the 
> pgcluster-1.5.0rc14-patch? Or does this patch just bring older 
> versions of pgcluster-1.5.0 up to patch level 14?
>
No, the patch is for patching postgresql 8.1.3 to get pgcluster.

Regards,

Christian

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