From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: jtkells@verizon.net
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PGDATA not accessible; please fix the directory permissions ($PGDATA should be world readable)
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:49:10 -0400
Message-ID: <19181.1312904950@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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jtkells@verizon.net writes:
> postgresql 8.4.8 64 bit /Ubuntu 10.4 64 bit
> When I try to connect to postgresql from a local user on the same
> machine that postgresql is running on I receive the following:
> psql
> Error: /pgdata/data is not accessible; please fix the directory
> permissions (/pgdata/ should be world readable)
There is no such error message in the standard distribution of Postgres.
I surmise that you are up against some hack written by the Ubuntu
packager of Postgres, and so you'd be best off filing a bug in the
Ubuntu bug tracker to get support for that.
regards, tom lane
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