Re: Hint to set owner for tablespace directory

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hint to set owner for tablespace directory
Date: 2018-09-24 12:50:12
Message-ID: 542444d9-d768-aa10-07c1-83abd896e86f@2ndquadrant.com
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On 11/09/2018 17:10, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 07/09/2018 17:59, Maksim Milyutin wrote:
>> those directories was that user). The error message "could not set
>> permissions on directory ..." disoriented that user. The need to change
>> the owner of those directories came after careful reading of
>> documentation. I think it would be helpful to show the proposed hint to
>> more operatively resolve the problem.
>
> I think it might be worth clarifying the documentation instead. I'm
> looking at the CREATE TABLESPACE reference page and it's not super clear
> on first reading.

How about the attached patch?

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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