Re: installing postgres7.3.4 problem

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 18:10:10 +0200,
  javier garcia - CEBAS <rn001@cebas.csic.es> wrote:
> # su - postgres
> (I don't know the meaning of a "login shell", but this is not my problem)
> And then appears the message (in  spanish):
> "su: atention: we can't change to the directory /var/lib/pgsql: the directory
> or file doesn't exists"
>
> Previously I had postgres databases in /var/lib/pgsql. But I've uninstalled
> the previously the 7.2 version and I don't know why this happens.
>
> Could anyone guide me with this?

/var/lib/pgsql is the home directory for the postgres user.
You can avoid this problem by not using the - in the su command.