Hey Rich, You should chown your data dir (/usr/local/pgsql/data) to "postgres" before you run initdb.
2010/12/2 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> > I'm manually replacing -8.3.3 with -9.0.1 I have the old data/ directory > and pg_dumpall files safely stored. Following the directions at: > <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/install-upgrading.html>, > step > #5 I see this: > > postg...@salmo:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user > "postgres". > This user must also own the server process. > > The database cluster will be initialized with locales > COLLATE: C > CTYPE: en_US > MESSAGES: en_US > MONETARY: en_US > NUMERIC: en_US > TIME: en_US > The default database encoding has accordingly been set to LATIN1. > The default text search configuration will be set to "english". > > fixing permissions on existing directory /usr/local/pgsql/data ... initdb: > could not change permissions of directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data": > Operation > not permitted > > The directory /usr/local/pgsql/data is owned by me; what should the > permissions be so I don't get that error message above? > > TIA, > > Rich > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- // Dmitriy.
