kalyanaraman rajaraman <egovernance2005@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > -bash-3.00$ initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data -W template1 > The files belonging to this database system will be > owned by user "postgres". > This user must also own the server process. > The database cluster will be initialized with locale > ta_IN.UTF-8. > creating directory template1... ok Not sure if this explains your problem, but you definitely don't want that "template1" on the initdb command line. regards, tom lane