Re: [Bug-gnubg] How does one set up the database

[Jim Segrave]

On Sun 27 Jun 2004 (14:15 +0000), Joern Thyssen wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 03:59:09PM +0200, Jim Segrave wrote
> > 
> > I finally got around to building python support in gnubg (under
> > FreeBSD 5.2, it finally does threading correctly and doesn't steal all
> > the idle CPU).
> > 
> > A digression before the main question:
> > 
> >   I still can't get the autoconfigure chain to work on this system and
> >   am forced to use autogen.sh.
> 
> What goes wrong?

I'll get a full dump of what happens tomorrow. Basically m4 gets
unhappy 
> 
> > Given python, postgers 7.41 and the python postgres interface, how
> > does one actually construct the database so that it can be used?
> > 
> > Eg: initdb (some paramters)
> >     postmaster (other parameters) or 
> 
> I don't know about these, since they're already set-up on my Redhat box,
> e.g.,
> 
> service postgresql start
> 
> >     psql (parameters)
> >     magic to initialise the database
> 
> You'd probably need something like:
> 
> createuser jes  (as postgresql super-user)
> createdb gnubg (as jes)
> psql < gnubg/gnubg.sql 

It took a while to find that the python installation had a previous
version of pgdb.py which doesn't work with postgres 7.3 or later, but
it now seems to work.

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden