På onsdag 18. september 2019 kl. 12:13:24, skrev Marco Ippolito < ippolito.ma...@gmail.com <mailto:ippolito.ma...@gmail.com>>: Thanks Matthias. Followed these steps (indicated here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/creating-cluster.html <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/creating-cluster.html> ) root# chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql root# su postgres postgres$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data postgres@pc:/home/marco$ /usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres". This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locales COLLATE: en_GB.UTF-8 CTYPE: en_GB.UTF-8 MESSAGES: en_GB.UTF-8 MONETARY: C.UTF-8 NUMERIC: C.UTF-8 TIME: C.UTF-8 The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8". The default text search configuration will be set to "english". Data page checksums are disabled. creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 100 selecting default shared_buffers ... 128MB selecting default timezone ... Europe/Rome selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... posix creating configuration files ... ok running bootstrap script ... ok performing post-bootstrap initialization ... ok syncing data to disk ... ok WARNING: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the option -A, or --auth-local and --auth-host, the next time you run initdb. Success. You can now start the database server using: /usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start But now permission denied: postgres@pc:/home/marco$ sudo /usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start [sudo] password for postgres: postgres is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. postgres@pc:/home/marco$ /usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start waiting for server to start..../bin/sh: 1: cannot create logfile: Permission denied stopped waiting pg_ctl: could not start server Examine the log output. postgres@pc:/home/marco$ Start pg_ctl as postgres user, no need to sudo. -- Andreas Joseph Krogh CTO / Partner - Visena AS Mobile: +47 909 56 963 andr...@visena.com <mailto:andr...@visena.com> www.visena.com <https://www.visena.com> <https://www.visena.com>
