Re: Installation docs wrong?

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> On this page:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/creating-cluster.html

> It has this sequence:

> root# mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
> root# chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
> root# su postgres
> postgres$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

> However, initdb will fail in this case, since the /usr/local/pgsql dir 
> is NOT owned by postgres.  (This came up on IRC helping someone)

That doesn't matter per se.  But I wonder if /usr/local/pgsql was set up
as not world readable.
        regards, tom lane