Christine Desmuke <cdesmuke(at)kshs(dot)org> writes:
> I'm trying to install 8.3.7, but can't get past make check.
> CentOS release 4.7 (Final), with an existing install of 8.3.1 running as
> a warm standby
> ...
> It looks in every case like the ERROR (and also HINT lines) lines are
> causing the failures, but I'm not sure what setting I messed up to cause
> that. What should I be looking for?
Years ago I saw roughly similar symptoms when SELinux decided postgres
shouldn't be allowed to write to /dev/tty. I'm not sure how that would
relate to your situation, but it'd be worth checking for avc messages in
the kernel log ...
regards, tom lane