id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,port 39341,postgresql93-server @9.3beta1: more robust initdb invocation,gthb,jyrkiwahlstedt,"The current invocation of initdb suggested in post-install output: {{{#!sh sudo su postgres -c '/opt/local/lib/postgresql93/bin/initdb -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql93/defaultdb' }}} fails with somewhat confusing error messages if the user is in a directory not accessible to the `postgres` user — and that's typically the case. The attached patch changes this to a `sudo -i -u postgres` invocation, which doesn't care which directory you run it from. That ought to cut down on people stumbling on the `initdb` step as in #32817.",enhancement,closed,Normal,,ports,,fixed,,,postgresql93-server