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.
FYI,
Robert Phillips
