Re: [HACKERS] No user being created during initdb for OS X

2005-07-21 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Andrew Dunstan wrote: 2. initdb will only create one user, as specified by -U and defaulting to the name of the user running initdb. Thus it will only ever create a user called postgres if '-U postgres' is specified, or if -U is not used and the user running initdb is called postgres.

Re: [HACKERS] No user being created during initdb for OS X

2005-07-21 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Thomas F. OConnell said: > Do you already have a postgres user on the system? And do you mean > that initdb is not creating a postgres user in the database? > Presumably, if run as the user that will own the server process, it > should create that user in the database as well. > > http://www.postgr

Re: [HACKERS] No user being created during initdb for OS X

2005-07-21 Thread Dave Cramer
I guess the next obvious question is why do you think there isn't a user? What is the error message ? Dave On 21-Jul-05, at 12:38 AM, Jamie Deppeler wrote: I am doing it right /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: Do you already have a postgres us

Re: [HACKERS] No user being created during initdb for OS X

2005-07-21 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 02:38:51PM +1000, Jamie Deppeler wrote: > I am doing it right > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data How are you determining that "no user is being created"? What are you doing and what's the exact error message? -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuh

Re: [HACKERS] No user being created during initdb for OS X

2005-07-20 Thread Jamie Deppeler
I am doing it right /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: Do you already have a postgres user on the system? And do you mean that initdb is not creating a postgres user in the database? Presumably, if run as the user that will own the server process

Re: [HACKERS] No user being created during initdb for OS X

2005-07-20 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
Do you already have a postgres user on the system? And do you mean that initdb is not creating a postgres user in the database? Presumably, if run as the user that will own the server process, it should create that user in the database as well. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/app-

[HACKERS] No user being created during initdb for OS X

2005-07-20 Thread Jamie Deppeler
Hi, Having an issue with 10.4.2 at the moment when i initialize the database no user is being created. I have setup Postgresql 8.0.3 on 10.3 without any issue, has anyone come accross this problem before? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Do