Re: Pg_auto_failover

My user has permission to touch inside the Fs.
I am not getting why it is checking for /backup.

Any suggestions on this , what else I can check

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 12:15 AM bricklen <bricklen(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:41 AM Sonam Sharma <sonams1209(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> I was setting up pg_auto_failover. Have successfully set up and monitor
>> and primary instance. While setting up secondary it's failing with below :
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>> ERROR Failed to ensure empty directory "//backup" : Permission denied
>> Error Failed initialise standby server , see above for details.
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> If you're using the tool from Citus, per
> https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover/blob/d8ba26f47a60eaf1e1dc63ae67279553984d84f5/src/bin/pg_autoctl/file_utils.c#L112
> Is the problem literally that the OS user executing the commands does not
> have sufficient permission to work in that directory? If you are creating
> your data directory manually in "/", you might want to create a directory
> under that path that the user executing the commands has sufficient
> permission to modify (delete, create, write to)
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