Re: "pg_ctl: cannot be run as root"

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Stefan Schwarzer" <stefan(dot)schwarzer(at)grid(dot)unep(dot)ch>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "pg_ctl: cannot be run as root"
Date: 2008-02-04 20:22:10
Message-ID: 7697.1202156530@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I don't know MacOS very well, and it's been a while that I last
> had my hands on MacOS X (>2 years). Are you saying that
> you use MacOS as user root by default, rather than as a non
> privileged account?

Certainly not. The problem was the "sudo" in the OP's command.

regards, tom lane

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