[GRASSLIST:6000] Re: Postgress and GRASS CD

[Piero Cavalieri]

John Chesnut wrote:

>
> Can some one who has experience getting Postgres interoperating with 
> Grass on Mac OSX please post step by step instructions. 

I have Linux, maybe works the same.

> sudo -u postgres /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -D 
> /usr/local/pgsql/data


You don't need the the -i option if you use UNIX sockets. (You specify 
the type of connection
in pg_hba.conf).

>
> this reports the error
> FATAL: no such group 'pgsql'

On my system during the installation of postgres was created user 
'postgres' that belong to
group 'postgres'.

Exuse my stupid question, but launching programs with 'sudo' is exatly 
the same as authenticating
before with 'su' (from a permission point of view) ?