Trying to get Postgres setup in my environment but can't seem to get permissions to intidb

This should work just fine:

# sudo mkdir /usr/local/var/postgres
# sudo chmod 775 /usr/local/var/postgres
# sudo chown construct /usr/local/var/postgres
# initdb /usr/local/var/postgres

use your username in place of construct. So, if your computer username is WDurant, the code will be:

# sudo chown $(whoami) /usr/local/var/postgres

If you run on Arch Linux, use like this :

sudo mkdir /var/lib/postgres
sudo chmod 775 /var/lib/postgres
sudo chown postgres /var/lib/postgres

sudo -i -u postgres

[postgres]$ initdb --locale $LANG -E UTF8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'
[postgres]$ exit

sudo systemctl start postgresql.service

sudo -i -u postgres

You actually need to SU to the postgres user

• sudo su - postgres

then you can run the command

• initdb -E UTF8 (I prefer setting this now because UTF8 is quite flexible and this will create all clusters as UTF8 [unless you explicitly specify otherwise])

then you need to create your user (if it hasn't already been created)

• $ createuser -s -U postgres
• $ Enter name of role to add: {{ my login name }} (this appears to be Construct)

then you can exit out of postgres user and you can create your own database

• $ createdb