Re: CreateUser error

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

jonathan harvey <jonathanharv(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> I am trying to get PostgreSQL 8.1.4 up and running on fedora core 5.

Have you started the service?  If "ps auxww | grep postgres" doesn't
show some postgres-owned processes, you need

	sudo /sbin/service postgresql start

You probably also want 

	sudo /sbin/chkconfig postgresql on

but that just fixes things so that future reboots will automatically
start the database, it doesn't make it run now.

			regards, tom lane