Re: [Users] About owner of postgres
From: Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com>
To: Stephen Liu <satimis(a)yahoo.com>
Cc: Juan Hernandez <jhernand(a)redhat.com>; "users(a)ovirt.org"
<users(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Users] About owner of postgres
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> A further question;
>
> I can change the owner of postgresql in following ways;
>
> 1)
> # chown satimis satimis /var/lib/pgsql/
>
>
> OR
> 2)
> sudo su - postgres
> initdb -E UTF8
>
> $ createuser -s -U postgres
> $ Enter name of role to add: {{ satimis }}
>
>
> Would there is any difference?
>
> If there is. After having finished the current test I can start a new test
on another hard drive.
>
>
> Besides:
> on
> http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Installing_PostgreSQL_DB
> Connecting to the database
>
> Run /etc/init.d/postgresql restart (it didn't work)
>
> to be replaced with:
> service postgresql restart
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i may have missed this, but why are you trying to change the owner of
postgres?
On my previous posting I was stuck there.
I was stuck here;
# su - postgres -c 'pg_ctl initdb'
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 locale en_US.UTF-8.
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8.
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
initdb: directory "/var/lib/pgsql/data" exists but is not empty
If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty
the directory "/var/lib/pgsql/data" or run initdb
with an argument other than "/var/lib/pgsql/data".
pg_ctl: database system initialization failed
pgsql was owned by postgres not by user nor root
Stephen L