Re: Wiki editor request -

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Phillips,Robert V wrote:

> I do not necessarily want to be an editor, but I think a clarification should be made on https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/First_steps
>
> It says there to " First connect/login as root" and then it shows:
>
> #su - postgres
> $ psql
>
> ISSUE: on RHEL 7.3, user postgres does not have psql in the path, and when, as user postgres I add a file ~/.bashrc with the line:
>
> export PATH=/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin:$PATH
>
> and relogin as posgtres, the command $ psql is still not found ( I guess redhat 7.3 ignores the ~/.bashrc file --- it is owned by postgress and I set it to mode 755 - and still it has no effect).
>
> However, I must manually do that export command as user posgres in the shell, and only then will the command $psql work.

Can you check if adding

PATH=/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin:$PATH
export PATH

in the home directory of the user postgres works? Also make sure it is actually readable by the user.

Marcin