Re: 7.1beta4 initdb problem - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: 7.1beta4 initdb problem
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0102051856540.762-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: 7.1beta4 initdb problem  ("Tim Barnard" <tbarnard@povn.com>)
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Tim Barnard writes:

> Well, I was logged in as postgres when this occured.
> I managed to resolve it by changing permissions on the /progs
> directory to rwx. It had been r-x. Strange error message for a permissions
> problem on a destination directory!

I'm not sure I follow.  Given that executing a program doesn't require
write permission I assume this is your PGDATA.  But PGDATA isn't checked
until after --version/-V has been evaluated.  The easiest thing would be
to check what postgres -V would show (in the broken setup).

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/


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