Re: Problems running postgres on XFS+LVM on Linux - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Problems running postgres on XFS+LVM on Linux
Date
Msg-id 19057.994177126@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Problems running postgres on XFS+LVM on Linux  (David Stanaway <david@netventures.com.au>)
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David Stanaway <david@netventures.com.au> writes:
>> Now postmaster fails to start correctly and consumes 100% of one CPU.

> The problem was ownership and permisions of /var/lib/postgres/data

> When I created the new filesystem and mount point
> The permisions of this directory were incorrect:
> drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Jul  4 04:33 data

> When I set it to the correct state:
> drwx------    5 postgres postgres     4096 Jul  4 04:33 data

> All was fine :)

Nonetheless, it shouldn't have done that --- you should get a useful
error report, not an infinite loop.  Will fix.

            regards, tom lane

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