Postgres is failing with 'could not open relation mapping file “global/pg_filenode.map” '

Question

I\'m having an issue with my install of postgres in my development environment and I need some help diagnosing it. I haven\'t yet had any luck in tracking down a solution.

Answer 1

I had the same error psql: FATAL: could not open relation mapping file "global/pg_filenode.map": No such file or directory.

Thanks for note #2 above: 'Kill the processes for 9.0.3'

I previously configured and compiled PostgreSQL. I then decided to reconfigure, gmake, gmake install with different file paths. The newly compiled program wasn't finding 'pg_filenode.map' in the expected filepath. Killing the running postgres process, emptying pgsql/data, and doing initdb again allowed creation of a new database.