Issue partially resolved.
The 13.04 installation I mentioned was actually cloned from a 12.04LTS
partition and I recall that I had problems with permissions
that stopped PostgreSQL from running. The command to change the permissions
of the PostgreSQL directory under /etc/ is:
"sudo chown -R
@ Martin
I don't recall creating the "PostgreSQL" user... just installing the
software. The software that creates and uses the PostgreSQL database
creates it's own user.
Interestingly, if I go into Ubuntu's Users & Groups, the user
'PostgreSQL' is shown as disabled. The application PostgresSQ
> postgres:x:1001:1001:PostgreSQL:/etc/PostgreSQL/9.0:/bin/sh
You created this yourself, didn't you? postgresql-common creates that
user as a system user (uid < 500), but this is a "normal" (human) user.
For system wide services you should rather do something like "sudo
adduser --system postgres".
PostgreSQL v9.0 was downloaded from http://www.postgresql.org/ into the
original 13.04 disto in my sda5. This was then DD cloned into my sda6
and dist-upgrade to 13.10. PostgreSQL is needed on my system as I run
a Postgres database. It also has to be v9.0 as there are serious
limitations to l
How did you install PostgreSQL?
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