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

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. That shouldn've have worked in
8.4.2 either - but it's only checked on server startup, so if you
changed the mode after startup you wouldn't have noticed.

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