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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: BUG #5680: Failure to start: too many private dirs demanded
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Msg-id 1285635048-sup-3852@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to BUG #5680: Failure to start: too many private dirs demanded  ("Alexey Parshin" <alexeyp@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: BUG #5680: Failure to start: too many private dirs demanded  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Excerpts from Alexey Parshin's message of lun sep 27 16:56:01 -0400 2010:
>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference:      5680
> Logged by:          Alexey Parshin
> Email address:      alexeyp@gmail.com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.0.0
> Operating system:   Gentoo Linux
> Description:        Failure to start: too many private dirs demanded
> Details:
>
> PostgreSQL (fresh install) fails to start.
> The only message in the log file says:
> FATAL: too many private dirs demanded

Weird.  A result of some gentoo patch perhaps?  Please try

strace postmaster -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data
which should be more illuminating.

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