Re: How to re-own db cluster

On 15/02/2008, Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I was trying to install a student information system called Centre which
> failed to connect to postgres for reasons I have still been unable to
> isolate. In order to restart the entire procedure of installation of
> database and Centre, I removed the 'postgres' user and group that owned the
> database and then readded them only to get the following error:
> "Stopping PostgreSQL 8.3 database server: main
> Error: The cluster is owned by user id 110which does not exist anymore
> failed!"
> How can I re-own the cluster? I cannot uninstall the postgresql-8.3 deb
> using 'dpkg --purge postgesql-8.3'? Reinstalling gives similar
> configuration errors. I use Debian 'Lenny'.
> Thank you.
> Regards,
>

Re-create the postgres user with the right user id. I believe that should be
"adduser -UID 110 postgres" there are more complex answers but this is
probably the simplest.

Regards

PEter