postgres-server post-install instructions seem incorrect?

[masklinn]

After installing the port, a life-saver note is printed providing setup instructions

notes "\nTo create a database instance, after install do\n\
        sudo mkdir -p ${dbdir}\n\
        sudo chown ${dbuser}:${dbgrp} ${dbdir}\n\
        sudo su ${dbuser} -c \'cd ${dbhome} && ${libdir}/bin/initdb -D ${dbdir}\' "

Unless I'm misreading things or my machine is in a really weird state (as these failed) there's an issue with it though: on the last line, it cds to ${dbhome} as ${dbuser}, but ${dbhome} *is still owned by root*

• ${dbdir} is ${dbhome}/defaultdb
• both directories are created as root
• chown is only applied to ${dbdir}

so the postgres user doesn't have access to ${dbhome} to which it tries to cd.

I don't really know whether the proper fix is to just not cd there at all (is it really necessary for initdb?) or to chown -R ${dbdir} instead of just ${dbhome}.

Assuming it's not an error between my keyboard and chair, I think it's a long-standing issue too, I remember hitting it on previous versions but assuming I'd screwed up somewhere.

[jyrkiwahlstedt]

I checked the instructions by doing initdb with postgresql11, it worked quite fine. The only reason I see one couldn't access ${dbhome} is, if the permissions for it are something like rwx------. I have my umask as 0022, a normal value for it, with no problems…

[masklinn]

I have my umask as 0022, a normal value for it, with no problems…

Ah, that's the one. Apparently sometimes in the past I decided to set umask 027, then promptly forgot about it. Sorry for the bother.