On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:57, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 05:17, John T. Dow <john@johntdow.com> wrote:
>>> Apparently the problem boils down to this question: how did some of the files get set to be system and read only?
>>
>> Yes. That would be very interesting to know. PostgreSQL never
>> (intentionally) sets these flags, so they must've come from something
>> else.
>
> Being a non-privaledged account, does the postgres user even have the
> power to do that?
Yes, IIRC any user that has write permissions on a file can set the
attributes, including readonly and system.
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