On Saturday, February 6, 2021, PG Doc comments form <nore...@postgresql.org> wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/creating-cluster.html > Description: > > "root# mkdir /usr/local/pgsql > root# chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql > root# su postgres > postgres$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data" > If these steps are followed then it still fails to initialize the DB as > chown only gives ownership to the pgsql directory but not the child > directories under pgsql, > If you follow those four steps exclusively then at the fourth step there are no child directories since step one created the pgsql directory and neither step two nor three created any other directories. The reader has already been told that if the directory being pointed to exists it must be owned by postgres. David J.
