| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Installation docs wrong? |
| Date: | 2005-03-25 07:00:44 |
| Message-ID: | 20870.1111734044@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> On this page:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/creating-cluster.html
> It has this sequence:
> root# mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
> root# chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
> root# su postgres
> postgres$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> However, initdb will fail in this case, since the /usr/local/pgsql dir
> is NOT owned by postgres. (This came up on IRC helping someone)
That doesn't matter per se. But I wonder if /usr/local/pgsql was set up
as not world readable.
regards, tom lane
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