[HACKERS] Installation docs wrong?

2005-03-24 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
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

Re: [HACKERS] Installation docs wrong?

2005-03-24 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Sorry, on further investigation this seems to work for everyone except that guy - weird. Chris Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: 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

Re: [HACKERS] Installation docs wrong?

2005-03-24 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:30:46PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: 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

Re: [HACKERS] Installation docs wrong?

2005-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
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