Re: [HACKERS] No user being created during initdb for OS X

From: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
To: Jamie Deppeler <jamie(at)doitonce(dot)net(dot)au>
Cc: "Thomas F(dot) O'Connell" <tfo(at)sitening(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] No user being created during initdb for OS X
Date: 2005-07-21 11:07:57
Message-ID: 82D3C995-6CC8-4D0B-A022-9CF0C08843A3@fastcrypt.com
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I guess the next obvious question is why do you think there isn't a
user? What is the error message ?

Dave
On 21-Jul-05, at 12:38 AM, Jamie Deppeler wrote:

> I am doing it right
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
>
>
>> Do you already have a postgres user on the system? And do you
>> mean that initdb is not creating a postgres user in the
>> database? Presumably, if run as the user that will own the server
>> process, it should create that user in the database as well.
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/app-initdb.html
>>
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>> Thomas F. O'Connell
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>> On Jul 20, 2005, at 8:35 PM, Jamie Deppeler wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Having an issue with 10.4.2 at the moment when i initialize the
>>> database no user is being created.
>>>
>>> I have setup Postgresql 8.0.3 on 10.3 without any issue, has
>>> anyone come accross this problem before?
>>>
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