From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Could not create a tablespace - permission denied
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:51:53 -0700
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Graham Leggett wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> I am pretty sure you are missing something. I can not reproduce your
>> issue:
>
> Do it like this:
>
> - mkdir /tmp/foo
> - chown user:user /tmp/foo
> - edit /etc/group and add postgres to the group user
Aha! there it is. Adding a user to a group doesn't mean anything until
that user reinitializes the environment. That is why restarting
postgresql resolves the issue. When postgresql is started, is actually
launches a new shell as the user and the fact that they are part of the
group is picked up.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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