Re: Recover PostgreSQL database folder data

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 3:05 AM, Cat <cat(at)zip(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 08:20:38PM -0300, Edson Lidorio wrote:
> > Ls -la /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data
> >
> > drwx------. 20 postgres postgres 4096 Abr 21 17:52 .
> > drwx------. 4 root root 51 Abr 21 06:33 ..
>
> Ensure that the user 'postgres' has permissions to get to
> this dir from / up. This may either mean changing permissions
> on some directories or changing ownership.
>
> More than likely / /var /lib are a permissions thing (likely
> need to be u+rwx,g+rx,o+rx) and /var/lib/pgsql/ and up is an
> ownership thing (postgres:postgres) but this is not guaranteed
> so take care.

Since this is CentOS, I would also look into if it's selinux things that
are incorrect. The easiest way is to turn it off and see if that fixes it
-- if it does, then read up on the selinux docs for how to figure out what
is wrong and probably use restorecon to get things back in order.

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