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commit    bc99397563ff88c31078d4bf66b8538c78a08bda
Author:   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:     Tue Sep 25 17:53:01 2012 +0000

    Fix examples of how to use "su" while starting the server.
    
    The syntax "su -c 'command' username" is not accepted by all versions of
    su, for example not OpenBSD's.  More portable is "su username -c
    'command'".  So change runtime.sgml to recommend that syntax.  Also,
    add a -D switch to the OpenBSD example script, for consistency with other
    examples.  Per Denis Lapshin and Gábor Hidvégi.


 doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index 4964de394f4..e1c290fec51 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -286,10 +286,10 @@ pg_ctl start -l logfile
    <filename>rc.d</> directories. Whatever you do, the server must be
    run by the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> user account
    <emphasis>and not by root</emphasis> or any other user. Therefore you
-   probably should form your commands using <literal>su -c '...'
-   postgres</literal>.  For example:
+   probably should form your commands using
+   <literal>su postgres -c '...'</literal>.  For example:
 <programlisting>
-su -c 'pg_ctl start -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l serverlog' postgres
+su postgres -c 'pg_ctl start -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l serverlog'
 </programlisting>
   </para>
 
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ su -c 'pg_ctl start -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l serverlog' postgres
       <indexterm><primary>OpenBSD</><secondary>start script</secondary></>
 <programlisting>
 if [ -x /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -a -x /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres ]; then
-    su - -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l /var/postgresql/log -s' postgres
+    su -l postgres -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -s -l /var/postgresql/log -D /usr/local/pgsql/data'
     echo -n ' postgresql'
 fi
 </programlisting>


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