[GENERAL] "pg_ctl: cannot be run as root"

[Stefan Schwarzer]

Hi there,








pg_ctl: cannot be run as root
Please log in (using, e.g., "su") as the (unprivileged) user that will
own the server process.


What is this? Thanks for any advice,

Stefan

PS: Running Leopard on MacPro.

I installed postgres without creating another postres user/admin than myself, as there is no other user on my machine and it's only for testing purposes. But strange enough, I only can start the postgres server from time to time, normally when I have freshly restarted the machine. Now for example, I did some changes to the postgresql.conf file, and when trying to restart the postgres server, I get this: gridmac7:~ schwarzer$ sudo /opt/local/lib/postgresql82/bin/pg_ctl -D Documents/data_postgres -l logfile start

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