Re: [GENERAL] Postgres installation on Leopard; database on Mac-User-Level

2008-01-15 Thread Richard Huxton
Stefan Schwarzer wrote: There's no reason why you *have* to run the server as user postgres though. It's perfectly possible to do the above as user schwarzer. If the database system is intended just for that one user, that might make sense too. Oh, make sure the logfile is in a directory writ

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres installation on Leopard; database on Mac-User-Level

2008-01-15 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Now, it seems somewhat complicated - at least for me -, due to the different read-write permissions, to do that. It worked before, but now, after re-installing the machine, I really don't get it going... The commands would be like this: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /Users/schwarzer/Docu

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres installation on Leopard; database on Mac-User-Level

2008-01-15 Thread Richard Huxton
Stefan Schwarzer wrote: Hi there, I want to create my database not under /etc/ but under or within my Mac-user level, that is /Users/schwarzer/ The data directory shouldn't ever end up in /etc - are you sure that's what it's doing? Now, it seems somewhat complicated - at least for

[GENERAL] Postgres installation on Leopard; database on Mac-User-Level

2008-01-15 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Hi there, I want to create my database not under /etc/ but under or within my Mac-user level, that is /Users/schwarzer/ Now, it seems somewhat complicated - at least for me -, due to the different read-write permissions, to do that. It worked before, but now, after re-installing t