On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Michael Nolan <htfoot(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> initdb is failing on Centos 7 with 10.4 because the install procedure does
> not change the ownership of the /usr/local/pgsql directory to postgres.
>
> Changing the ownership fixes the problem, but the install procedure should
> do this.
>
Are you using the PGDG repo packages, or the default CentOS repo packages?
You should use PGDG and those should install under /var/lib/pgsql.
Don.
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