[postgis-users] Request from Narayanan

[Tim Bowden]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:16 +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 10:03 +0530, narayanan rm wrote:
> > Dear Friends,
> > 
> > I need a small help from you , i want to install the postgis-1.2.1 in
> > Fedoara 4, I have downloaded the tar file from postgis refraction, and
> > configured in /usr/local/postgis1.2.1 it gives okay,
> > then i make, make install, after that i could not createlang , and
> > further install it please advice me how to solve the issues
> > 
> 
> You can't createlang as root.  Either, su - postgres (or whatever user
> postgres runs as) and createlang or create a superuser with your
> username, and then try createlang.
> 
> HTH,
> Tim Bowden

Clarification:  by superuser I mean postgresql superuser (createuser
<usrname>, yes to create superuser), not system superuser.  You will
need to do this while logged in as user postgres.

Tim