On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:16 PM, Don Seiler <d...@seiler.us> wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Michael Nolan <htf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> initdb is failing on Centos 7 with 10.4 because the install procedure >> does not change the ownership of the /usr/local/pgsql directory to >> postgres. >> >> Changing the ownership fixes the problem, but the install procedure >> should do this. >> > > > Are you using the PGDG repo packages, or the default CentOS repo packages? > You should use PGDG and those should install under /var/lib/pgsql. > > Don. > -- > Don Seiler > www.seiler.us >
I was installing from source code, so I did a configure and a build (as postgres) and then an install (as root). -- Mike Nolan
