Обсуждение: postgres on gentoo.

did you ever get past your problem?   I saw a post in a search, but
never really saw the solution.   original link I found:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2005-07/msg00166.php

I (believe) the correct solution for postgres on gentoo linux is:

    mkdir /var/lib/postgresql
    chown postgres /var/lib/postgresql
    su postgres -c "initdb -D /var/lib/postgresql/data/"
    ls /var/lib/postgresql/data/
    /etc/init.d/postgresql start
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