Hi Tom, I was running initdb command when calling the postgresql96-setup command. Trying to run this as the user postgres failed.
/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/postgresql96-setup initdb The database was created under /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data thanks Scott. On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 4:56 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > =?utf-8?q?PG_Doc_comments_form?= <nore...@postgresql.org> writes: > > So I was trying to create a new db with initdb. I tried to run this with > > the postgres user after installing the server rpm and it failed with > runuser > > may not be run as non-root users. So then for fun I tried to run init > db > > as the root user which should have failed but instead it just reported > > initializing database ... OK > > hmm, worksforme: > > $ sudo initdb -D someplace > initdb: cannot be run as root > Please log in (using, e.g., "su") as the (unprivileged) user that will > own the server process. > > Were you actually running initdb directly, or some script that perhaps > sudo'd internally? > > regards, tom lane >
