Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> On this page:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/creating-cluster.html
> It has this sequence:
> root# mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
> root# chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
> root# su postgres
> postgres$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> However, initdb will fail in this case, since the /usr/local/pgsql dir
> is NOT owned by postgres. (This came up on IRC helping someone)
That doesn't matter per se. But I wonder if /usr/local/pgsql was set up
as not world readable.
regards, tom lane
