Issue while installing promscale

[AshnaSabu123]

Hi,
While using the init command below error is getting .Please have a look into and kindly share a solution.

cargo pgx init --pg13=/usr/lib/postgresql/13/bin/pg_config
Validating /usr/lib/postgresql/13/bin/pg_config
Initializing data directory at /root/.pgx/data-13
Error:
0: problem running initdb: "/usr/lib/postgresql/13/bin/initdb" "-D" "/root/.pgx/data-13"
initdb: error: cannot be run as root
Please log in (using, e.g., "su") as the (unprivileged) user that will
own the server process.

Location:
cargo-pgx/src/command/init.rs:450

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0: cargo_pgx::command::init::init_pgx with pgx_home=/root/.pgx
at cargo-pgx/src/command/init.rs:118
1: cargo_pgx::command::init::execute
at cargo-pgx/src/command/init.rs:68

[JamesGuthrie]

Hi @AshnaSabu123, Promscale, and its extension have been discontinued: timescale/promscale#1836.

The error that you're seeing is because you can't run postgres' initdb as the root user, you must create and switch to a non-root user. This dockerfile lays out the steps required to get the extension to build: https://github.com/timescale/promscale_extension/blob/master/ha.Dockerfile.