Re: Pg 8.4.3 does not start up with "Permissions should be u=rwx (0700)

Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 21:08, Joseph S <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net> wrote:
>> I upgraded from 8.4.2 to 8.4.3, and I couldn't start postgres. This was
>> printed on STDERR
>>
>> FATAL: data directory "path-to-my-data-dir" has group or world access
>> DETAIL: Permissions should be u=rwx (0700).
>>
>> This change was not documented in the release notes, and I don't think
>> permission != 700 should be a fatal error. I purposely set o+x to let any
>> user be able to read the log files.

> There has been no change there. From what I can tell, that part of the
> code hasn't been touched since 2004.

The restriction was introduced in 7.2 ...

regards, tom lane