error: initdb: could not look up effective user ID 21073: user does not exist

From: Sandeep Gupta <gupta(dot)sandeep(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: error: initdb: could not look up effective user ID 21073: user does not exist
Date: 2017-10-04 13:25:51
Message-ID: CAAywg7v5VPzr-0XePs7yhvvmKQSFKJy68De=07=y_1Ynry5Qww@mail.gmail.com
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I install postgres 9.6.5 on CentOS 6.8.
However, i am not able to init the database due to the following error.
A bug (http://www.postgresql-archive.org/BUG-8139-initdb-Misleading-error-message-when-current-user-not-in-etc-passwd-td5754618.html)
was reported with similar problem with but that was for pg 9.2.4

Thanks
sandeep

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