Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On this page: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/creating-cluster.html
> It has this sequence: > root# mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data > root# chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data > root# su postgres > postgres$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data > However, initdb will fail in this case, since the /usr/local/pgsql dir > is NOT owned by postgres. (This came up on IRC helping someone) That doesn't matter per se. But I wonder if /usr/local/pgsql was set up as not world readable. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings