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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: "pg_ctl: cannot be run as root"
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Msg-id 7697.1202156530@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: "pg_ctl: cannot be run as root"  ("Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@gmail.com>)
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"Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@gmail.com> writes:
> I don't know MacOS very well, and it's been a while that I last
> had my hands on MacOS X (>2 years).  Are you saying that
> you use MacOS as user root by default, rather than as a non
> privileged account?

Certainly not.  The problem was the "sudo" in the OP's command.

            regards, tom lane

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