Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> ... running "yum update" to see if it still happens with the latest
> selinux-policy-targeted ... if so there will be a bug report opened
> soon, and not against postgres ;-)
Filed as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145901
Now initdb had been working for me with the previous selinux policy,
but it seems likely that Jarkko has a several-versions-back policy
that also denies /usr/bin/postgres the ability to write to any pipe :-(
regards, tom lane