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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:04:09 -0500
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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Subject: Re: It is recommended to add detailed description about initdb ...
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On Fri, Dec  6, 2019 at 09:22:01AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/creating-cluster.html
> Description:
> 
> When I run initdb -D /home/myname/pgsql/data in /home/myname/pgsql/bin, it
> return bash: initdb: command not found.... The others are like this. It must
> be /home/myname/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /home/myname/pgsql/data.

This is related to your PATH environment variable setting and not
something we document.

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