Re: Installation of Postgres 10.0 and running application with HA without postgres user at OS

Change your port no. if already running which by default 5432 into the
postgresql.conf file and try to connect it again.

Thanks & Regards,
*Shreeyansh DBA Team*
www.shreeyansh.com

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:10 PM soumitra bhandary <
soumitra(dot)bhandary(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Yes during connection.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 07-Mar-2019, at 12:54 PM, Shreeyansh Dba <shreeyansh2014(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
> What error did you face during connectivity?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> *Shreeyansh DBA Team*
> www.shreeyansh.com
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 10:08 AM soumitra bhandary <
> soumitra(dot)bhandary(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Shreeyansh ,
>>
>> Thanks for the response .
>>
>> I installed postgres 10.0 rpm . It created osuser postgres and executed
>> initdb and cluster is up and running .
>>
>> Then I took my current user (not root) to create another cluster using
>> initdb . It successfully created but I am not able to log in to the new
>> cluster using psql and current user(through which initdb was executed).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Soumitra
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Shreeyansh Dba <shreeyansh2014(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> *Sent:* Friday, March 1, 2019 11:29 AM
>> *To:* soumitra bhandary
>> *Cc:* pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> *Subject:* Re: Installation of Postgres 10.0 and running application
>> with HA without postgres user at OS
>>
>> Hi Sumintra,
>>
>> You have to create a postgres OS user,initdb must be run as the user that
>> will own the server process, because the server needs to have access to the
>> files and directories that initdb creates. Since the server cannot be run
>> as root, you must not run initdb as root either. (It will in fact refuse to
>> do so.)
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> *Shreeyansh DBA Team*
>> www.shreeyansh.com
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 10:37 AM soumitra bhandary <
>> soumitra(dot)bhandary(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi ,
>>
>> I am using RHEL to install Postgres 10 and setting up replication . But
>> in my OS no postgres user exists . Installed it with sudo access . Can I
>> run the postgres DB with all it's utility (like psql, vaccumdb , pg_rewind
>> , initdb etc.) along with Master slave replication, archival process
>> without postgres user.
>>
>> If it can be done , do I need to follow any extra step to the os user
>> apart from postgres ?
>>
>> Is there any way to skip postgres os user ?
>>
>> Thanks ,
>> Soumitra
>>
>>