Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to aolserver running crazy...

I'd say it doesn't matter whether root or postgres creates the symlink. If postgres should normally be the owner of /usr/local/pqsql/lib directory ... then postgres should have been able to create that symlink. And it's always safer to have people do things as a non-root user. I'm guessing that is why Don's instructions said do it as postgres. Doing it as root won't break anything.