christoph(dot)dellavalle(at)goetheanum(dot)ch writes:
> when I switch to my postgresql-user, I get this error-message:
> myserver:~# su - postgres
> su: /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf: No such file or directory
It'd appear to me that the postgres user's ~/.profile (or equivalent)
is trying to read that file. Just get rid of that part of the profile
file, if you have no use for it. There's no such file in a standard
Postgres installation.
regards, tom lane