On 08/11/2016 10:15 AM, support-tiger wrote:
> Relatively minor. All docs say to use "su - postgres" - it doesn't
You talking about this?:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/install-short.html
That is building from source and shows creating an OS postgres user.
The only other thing I have seen is this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL
and it shows:
sudo -u postgres psql postgres
> seem to work right with linux. The difference in using the OS user
> postgres and the postgres user (role) postgres is confusing. Even if we
> set the postgres password to "postgres", it doesn't accept the
> password. With linux we have found that "sudo -u postgres psql" works.
> But not sure this is right or the best way.
>
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Adrian Klaver
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