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Then, from the command line, type

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% initlocation PGDATA2

Creating Postgres database system directory /alt/postgres/data

Creating Postgres database system directory /alt/postgres/data/base

The location will be initialized with username "postgres".

This user will own all the files and must also own the server process.

Creating directory /alt/postgres/data

Creating directory /alt/postgres/data/base

initlocation is complete.

You can now create a database using

CREATE DATABASE &lt;name&gt; WITH LOCATION = 'PGDATA2'

in SQL, or

createdb &lt;name&gt; -D 'PGDATA2'

from the shell.

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