| From: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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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 04:38:57 |
| Message-ID: | 424395E1.8020702@familyhealth.com.au |
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Sorry, on further investigation this seems to work for everyone except
that guy - weird.
Chris
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> 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)
>
> Should it in fact be:
>
> root# chown -R postgres /usr/local/pgsql
>
>
> Chris
>
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