Re: still having pg_user error

Tom thank you for the reply.

I believe I turned all that off during the install (no firewall).
But I can try again.
Is there an action I can take now since it is installed and in theory the
RPM's are up2date. Sorry I have a few books on postgres Oreily and Sams, but
it seems a bit deep on install.

At the very least I guess I can do a backup of the database, wipe everything
/var/lib/pgsql/data and try the initd thing (verify SELinux is off; not sure
how I do that, but I will look at the command you mentioned).

I am very happy with my progress thus far (have most of my data coming
over), but I am frustrated on my lack of knowledge. I have administered
Linux before but its been several years and I don't remember much.

I am very impressed with the progress with admin tools and such, I just wish
I had a clear idea of the path to get a development postgres box up on
fedora and am more then a little worried about administering the production
(we ordered a 4 processor Dell with Red HAT, I believe I will also need to
install it).

Again thank you for that piece of advice, I can always re-install Linux and
verify the SELinux option is off, maybe I messed up again.

Joel Fradkin

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:48 AM
To: Joel Fradkin
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] still having pg_user error

"Joel Fradkin" <jfradkin(at)wazagua(dot)com> writes:
> Well I re-installed Fedora 3 and updated my postgres and started the =
> service
> (no command line stuff).

> When I connected using pgadmin I still got the sp_user error.

Fedora 3? You should've mentioned that before. I'll bet you've got
SELinux enabled in enforcement mode. SELinux interferes with initdb
and I believe a missing pg_user view is one of the symptoms.

This is fixed in the very latest postgresql and selinux-policy-targeted
RPMs (u need both), but the path of least resistance is often to dial
SELinux down to permissive mode (sudo /usr/sbin/setenforce 0) for long
enough to do the initdb.

If you're running SELinux in strict rather than targeted policy, good
luck ... I honestly haven't tried that one at all ...

regards, tom lane