From: Bruce Momjian Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:34:18 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Update initdb instructions for a 1.* database. X-Git-Tag: REL2_0~200 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8de4434eb7e62dc72144517421388c7d96d9d4fb;p=postgresql Update initdb instructions for a 1.* database. --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index deb4212982..a7ecb2fad4 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -163,13 +163,15 @@ function. There are plans to remedy this in future developent. 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