Re: Problems setting up slony-1

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, geustace(at)godzone(dot)net(dot)nz (Glen Eustace) wrote:
> I am trying to setup slony-1 and need some off list assistance from
> someone who has got things going ( or at least knows more than me :-).
>
> I am running 7.4.6 on both master and slave but when I run the slonik
> script, I get the error.
>
> <stdin>:5: Initializing the cluster
> <stdin>:7: PGRES_FATAL_ERROR create schema "_GZ"; - ERROR: permission
> denied for database admin
> <stdin>:9: Could not initialize the cluster!
>
> I am using a 'slony' user which has createdb rights but the database
> admin was created by a different user.

The problem likely falls into one of two things:

a) pg_hba.conf is configured to deny access from the host you are
running slonik on;

b) The 'slony' user is not a superuser which, it is quite clearly
documented, it must be...
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