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@@ -161,18 +161,11 @@ superuser. The simplest way is by creating and running a C language function. There are plans to remedy this in future developent. The program initdb (part of Postgres) is what initializes (creates) a -database system. See the man page for initdb. +database system. Initdb uses the defaults specified in Makefile.global. +See the man page for initdb for more information. -Example for postgres version 1.*: % initdb -Example for postgres version 2.0:(to be released in several months) - % initdb -d /usr/lib/postgres_data -u postgres - - This example creates the files for the database system in the directory - /usr/lib/postgres_data and makes user "postgres" the Postgres superuser - for the new database system. - By default, the user issuing the initdb command becomes the Postgres superuser, and only the unix superuser can specify any other user as the Postgres superuser. |