On 28-Oct-99 Oliver Elphick wrote: > The Debian preinst script checks for the existence of postgres in > /etc/passwd > and creates it if it does not exist. If it does exist, it uses the home > directory named in /etc/passwd as the POSTGRES_HOME directory. > > If you have an existing installation, you should not remove the user from > /etc/passwd. > > If you are _newly_ installing postgresql 6.5.2 or later, there may be a > problem because base-passwd still makes the home directory /var/postgres > whereas it should now be /var/lib/postgres. Editing /etc/passwd to correct > this should be sufficient.
I removed all the postgresql packages (purged them) and then removed the user "postgres" from /etc/passwd. Then, I installed postgresql and it actually did not cause any errors this time, so I believe the removal of the user "postgres" did the trick. The deb package just recreated the user, as I thought it would. -- Andrew
