Hi Sumintra,
You have to create a postgres OS user,initdb must be run as the user that will own the server process, because the server needs to have access to the files and directories that initdb creates. Since the server cannot be run as root, you must not run initdb as root either. (It will in fact refuse to do so.)
On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 10:37 AM soumitra bhandary <soumitra.bhandary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi ,
I am using RHEL to install Postgres 10 and setting up replication . But in my OS no postgres user exists . Installed it with sudo access . Can I run the postgres DB with all it's utility (like psql, vaccumdb , pg_rewind , initdb etc.) along with Master slave replication, archival process without postgres user.
If it can be done , do I need to follow any extra step to the os user apart from postgres ?
Is there any way to skip postgres os user ?
Thanks ,
Soumitra
