Tom Lane wrote:
>"Josef J. Micka" <postgres@maylo.cz> writes:
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>>i want to make database in another place and i'm unable to use
>>initlocation, and i don't know, what i'm doing wrong.
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>>this is what i do, and i think it's correct.
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>>www:/home/db/postgres$ su postgres
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>Try "su - postgres" ... plain su retains root's environment.
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> regards, tom lane
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thanks, that works
i'm using su only sometimes, and don't know about this apearance. (never
had problems with "su" becausy mostly i'm running it from non-privileged
user, but because user postgres has no password and no shell, i must do
that from root this time)
so thanks again.
regards,
Josef