Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Panoramix:/var/lib/postgresql/8.0/main# ls /opt/ -al > total 56 > drwxrwxrw- 14 root staff . ^ > drwxr-xr-x 22 root root .. > drwx------ 3 postgres postgres pg_xlog There's your problem --- postgres can't do lookups in /opt. (Surely it's not a good idea for /opt to be world writable, either?) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster