Re: How to make PostreSQL utilities honor home directories?

On 2022-09-01 20:49:56 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 8:23 PM Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at> wrote:
> >
> > On 2022-09-01 18:16:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Jeffrey Walton <noloader(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > > > We are having a heck of a time getting PostreSQL utilities to honor
> > > > home directories. For example, when I execute this script:
> > >
> > > > sudo -H -u postgres PGPASSWORD=${password} \
> > > > psql -h "${hostname}" -U "${username}" -d "${database}" \
> > > > --command="..."
> > >
> > > > It produces failures:
> > >
> > > > could not change directory to "/home/jwalton/godojo": Permission denied

> > I get the same behaviour. So it seems that psql changes to its basedir
> > and then can't change back again.
>
> I guess there is no way to avoid the problem.

Changing to /tmp (or some other directory accessible by posgres) before
running the script would avoid it.
As would (temporarily) changing the permissions of the diretor(y/ies).
Or not using sudo at all (see other messages).

hp

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