Database Locations

Has anyone had any joy with this example taken from documentation.

$ mkdir private_db
$ initlocation ~/private_db
Creating Postgres database system directory /home/olly/private_db/base

$ psql olly
Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit

olly=> CREATE DATABASE elsewhere WITH LOCATION = '/home/olly/private_db';
CREATE DATABASE

I get an error like:-

olly=> create database test1 with location='/home/olly/private_db';
ERROR: Absolute paths are not allowed as database locations

...or at the command line...

$ createdb --location=/home/olly/private_db test1
ERROR: Absolute paths are not allowed as database locations
createdb: database creation failed

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