Installation glitches

Your name : Bastian Kleineidam
Your email address : calvin@cs.uni-sb.de

System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : Intel Celeron 433 MHz

Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : Linux 2.2.13 ELF

PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.3): PostgreSQL-6.5.3

Compiler used (example: gcc 2.8.0) : gcc 2.95.2

Experiences installing PostgreSQL 6.5.3 under Debian Linux 'potato(unstable)'

(1) INSTALL step 18. (calling initdb)
I have a non-privileged account with user postgres, group postgres
(uid=31, gid=32).
Everything went ok until i called initdb: this script tests
for uid==0 but INSTALL explicitly allows installation from
"non-privileged" accounts. This is a contradiction.

Fix: remove the test for uid==0:
#if [ $POSTGRES_SUPERUID -ne `pg_id` -a `pg_id` -ne 0 ]; then
if [ $POSTGRES_SUPERUID -ne `pg_id` ]; then

Then run initdb -u postgres and off you go.

(2) INSTALL step 20.c. (call psql)

======= begin shell snippet ===========
postgres@treasure:/~> psql
Connection to database 'postgres' failed.
FATAL 1: Database postgres does not exist in pg_database

postgres@treasure:/~> psql template1
Welcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:
Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL
[PostgreSQL 6.5.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc 2.95.2]

type \? for help on slash commands
type \q to quit
type \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
You are currently connected to the database: template1

template1=>
======= end shell snippet ==========

Apparently the createdb command creates 'template1' database per
default and the psql command connects to 'postgres' per default.
Workaround is seen in the shell snippet: call 'psql template1'

Bastian Kleineidam