From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: xinyyc+postgres@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Getting started
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:39:45 -0400
Message-ID: <ZTg5oabdFQXEf2nb@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29785cbd957449e98c03a77b6b9fb41970a4f1ca.camel@cybertec.at>
References: <167069800755.1903.2797040477164919245@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
<29785cbd957449e98c03a77b6b9fb41970a4f1ca.camel@cybertec.at>
xOn Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 08:20:03AM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Sat, 2022-12-10 at 18:46 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> >
> > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/user-manag.html
> > Description:
> >
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial-createdb.html
> >
> > The "getting started" page skips right from the installing to already having
> > started the program, but on linux machines, you cannot start psql without
> > inputting a special command, "sudo -u postgres psql". Typing psql will make
> > the program tell you that your username doesn't exist, and you can't create
> > a username for psql without starting psql first. I had to search somewhere
> > else to learn that I had to start psql with that special command.
>
> Yes, the "initdb" step is missing.
>
> If we had that, it would be clear that the rest of the chapter assumes that
> you are running shell commands with an operating system user whose name
> is identical to the bootstrap superuser.
I looked at this and initdb is mentioned in the installation section,
and an incorrect user name is mentions as part of craetedb failure. I
don't see what we can add to improve things here.
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