Tomeh, Husam wrote: > I've seen book that prefer installing PostgreSQL as root and another > one recommends otherwise by first creating a postgres account and > then installing it as postgres. In the Oracle world, you don't use > root to install the software. What is the best practice as far as > PostgreSQL goes?
The current recommendation, which is reflected in the installation instructions, is to install the software as root and to use the postgres user for the database files. The advice seen elsewhere in this thread to use the postgres user also for the software files is wrong. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
