The program initdb (part of Postgres) is what initializes (creates) a
database system. See the man page for initdb.
-Example:
+Example for postgres version 1.*:
+ % initdb
- % initdb --pgdata=/usr/lib/postgres_data --username=postgres
+Example for postgres version 2.0:(to be released in several months)
+ % initdb -d /usr/lib/postgres_data -u postgres
-This example creates the files for the database system in the directory
-/usr/lib/postgres_data and makes user "postgres" the Postgres superuser
-for the new database system.
+ This example creates the files for the database system in the directory
+ /usr/lib/postgres_data and makes user "postgres" the Postgres superuser
+ for the new database system.
By default, the user issuing the initdb command becomes the Postgres
superuser, and only the unix superuser can specify any other user as the