Re: Andrew Gierth 2018-03-17 <87in9uhbco.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk>
> Tom> I think your example of "sudo /usr/bin/pg_ctl" is pretty
> Tom> artificial; who'd bother spelling that out?
>
> Not necessarily exactly like that, but we do occasionally get this issue
> coming up on the IRC channel.
It's absolutely not artificial. I can easily trigger the message from
my home directory:
$ chmod 700 .
$ sudo -u postgres psql
could not change directory to "/home/cbe": Permission denied
I never observed any negative side effects of it, though. (Except for
the obvious fact that "\i somethinginmyhome.sql" won't work.)
Christoph
