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Subject: Re: post-bootstrap init : permission denied pg_description
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On 9/12/24 03:58, François SIMON wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I am trying to install PostgreSQL 16.4 on AIX 7.1.
> 
> I get an error at initdb step :
> 
> performing post-bootstrap initialization ... 2024-09-12 12:09:07.075 CEST [14745748] FATAL:  permission denied for table pg_description

That looks like an issue with the user you are running the command as.

What user is that?

What is the complete initdb command you used?

> 
> This version of PostgreSQL was build on this machine with
> IBM XL C compiler 10.1 :
> 
> export OBJECT_MODE=64
> $srcdir/configure --prefix=$instdir --without-icu
> make
> make install
> 
> When I run initdb with -n option, I can see that files in
> PGDATA directory seem to have expected permissions.
> 
> I have tried to install PostgreSQL 15.1, 16.0 and 16.3
> but got the same error with all these versions.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> François
> 
> 

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