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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: cannot connect to postgres db, strange error!
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In response to cannot connect to postgres db, strange error!  (Nizar Ghazali <nghazali@yahoo.com>)
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Nizar Ghazali <nghazali@yahoo.com> writes:
> I�m running postgres 7.4.3 on HP-UX 11.11. When I want
> to connect to my db, I have the following error:

> psql: FATAL:  _mdfd_getrelnfd: cannot open relation
> pg_class: Permission denied

Sounds to me like you started the postmaster as the wrong user
(not the one who did initdb).

            regards, tom lane

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