Install postgresql on fedora 16 for use with Rails3

Question

I'm trying to install posgresql on F16 to work with my rails installation. Using this guide

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/YUM_Installation#Initialize

But when I run service postgresql initdb I get this error

Unknown operation initdb

Answer 1

Fedora 16 has migrated to systemd from traditional init.d layout, so you should run su - postgres -c "PGDATA=/var/lib/pgsql/data initdb" directly, see Fedora wiki

Answer 2

Reading the link you provide it says

For PostgreSQL version 9.0 and above, the <name> is postgresql-9.0... 

and later is says

service <name> initdb 

so I'm guessing you want

service postgresql-9.0 initdb 

Answer 3

You can now use sudo postgresql-setup initdb.