Sigh. I coulda sworn I tested this in December, but it's definitely busted now: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=149237 (I might have messed up by only testing PG 8.0 --- 8.0 does not have this problem, since initdb is no longer a shell script.)
The short-term workaround is to temporarily disable selinux (sudo /usr/sbin/setenforce 0) while you initialize the database.
regards, tom lane
I have updated my systems to the latest postgresql packages and know I can work with postgresql. Thanks a lot.
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