Re: Re: Server tries to read a different config file than it is supposed to

On 05/23/2015 02:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> writes:
>> So on my Ubuntu installs it does not set up the postgres user to allow login, so how are you getting to:
>> su postgres -c ...
>
>>From root, presumably ...

Aargh, so used to the little voice telling me not to do things as root I
forgot that possibility.

>
> I thought of a different theory: maybe the server's complaint is not due
> to trying to read that file as a config file, but it's just because there
> is an unreadable/unwritable file in the data directory. See Christoph
> Berg's complaint at
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150523172627.GA24277@msg.df7cb.de
>
> This would only apply if the OP was trying to use this week's releases
> though. Also, I thought the fsync-everything code would only run if
> the server had been shut down uncleanly. Which maybe it was, but that
> bit of info wasn't provided either.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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Adrian Klaver
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