Re: "pg_ctl: cannot be run as root"

On 05/02/2008, Stefan Schwarzer <stefan(dot)schwarzer(at)grid(dot)unep(dot)ch> wrote:
> But strange enough, I only can start the postgres server from time to
> time, normally when I have freshly restarted the machine. Now for
> example, I did some changes to the postgresql.conf file, and when
> trying to restart the postgres server, I get this:
...
> PS: Running Leopard on MacPro.
I don't know MacOS very well, and it's been a while that I last
had my hands on MacOS X (>2 years). Are you saying that
you use MacOS as user root by default, rather than as a non
privileged account?

Cheers,
Andrej

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