You are correct, it is because I ran initdb as user postgres .... I am following you now .. .thanks for the clarification.
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:04 AM To: Plugge, Joe R. Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Installing Postgres without the postgres user and group on Linux? "Plugge, Joe R." <jrplu...@west.com> writes: > Understood, but I thought that the install routine (in this case compiled > from source on RHEL 6) will create the local user and group named postgres > and chown the config and data dirs to that .... The unmodified Postgres sources will certainly do no such thing. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
