Gaaaah! I get the same errors..
Yes, it's a pain in the butt.
The main problem sees to be that in order to access the data files you need to be root and in order to run postmaster and postgresql you can't be root!!!
If you su to postgres you get the error than postmaster is already running (even though it's not!)
I'm lost.
It's doesn't seem to make sense in the documentation from the postgresql site either. Judging by the number of people having these setup problems (just on this site), some clarification is badly needed.
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