On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Alexey V. Borzov wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> The problem is: from time to time, PostgreSQL seems to crash.
> Inspection of the logs revealed the following:
>
> 18 15:53:06 arbat logger: FATAL 1: File '/var/lib/pgsql/PG_VERSION' does not exist or no read permission.
>
> Well, '/var/lib/pgsql/PG_VERSION' does exist, it has read permission
> for user 'postgres' (I made it world readable, in fact, after I
> discovered this).
>
> Now, two questions:
> 1) Who the hell needs to read this file?
> 2) Why can't he do it?
What version fo PostgreSQL are you running?