Michael Fuhr <mike@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 02:26:11PM +0800, Liustech wrote: >> My postgres can not start up, I get this error message: >> >> postmaster successfully started >> /usr/bin/postmaster: real and effective user ids must match > How are you starting the postmaster? The error suggests that the > postmaster or the program that runs the postmaster is setuid. Another possibility is that he's doing su postgres -c "postmaster ..." where it should be su - postgres -c "postmaster ..." I'm not certain this would produce exactly the described failure, but it's something to check. regards, tom lane
