Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl> writes:
>>> PANIC: could not open file
>>> "/var/lib/postgresql/8.0/main/pg_xlog/00000001.history": Permission
>>> denied
>> So what happens if you do:
>> ls -l /var/lib/postgresql/8.0/main/pg_xlog/00000001.history
> There is not a file with that name.
Not surprising; the problem is that it's getting "Permission denied"
instead of "No such file".
regards, tom lane