Re: Unable to connect DB...? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Ron
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In response to Re: Unable to connect DB...?  (Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com>)
Responses Re: Unable to connect DB...?  (Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com>)
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Once, our developers had the bright idea of deleting files to quickly purge data.  Naturally, it corrupted everything, and points to the danger of developers having the postgres password...

On 7/16/19 7:07 AM, Holger Jakobs wrote:

Since your message says that the file is completely missing, someone must have deleted the file. There is nothing you can do except restoring from a backup.

Making sure postgres owns the files and the access rights are restricted to rw------- prevents this.

Even a file system error won't lead to this situation, as typically the file remains with length 0.


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