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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Plugge, Joe R. <JRPlugge@west.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Installing Postgres without the postgres user and group on Linux?
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:03:44 -0500
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"Plugge, Joe R." <JRPlugge@west.com> writes:
> Understood, but I thought that the install routine (in this case compiled from source on RHEL 6) will create the local user and group named postgres and chown the config and data dirs to that ....

The unmodified Postgres sources will certainly do no such thing.

			regards, tom lane


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