On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote:
> On 05/19/2018 03:16 PM, Michael Nolan wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:16 PM, Don Seiler <d...@seiler.us <mailto: >> d...@seiler.us>> wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Michael Nolan <htf...@gmail.com >> <mailto: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 <http://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). >> > > Then setting up the $DATADIR is on you: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/install-short.html > > Shouldn't this also be mentioned in the INSTALL file in the source directory then? -- Mike Nolan > > > -- >> Mike Nolan >> > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.kla...@aklaver.com >
