That was exactly it. Doh! After I made all the subdirectories 700, adding the traverse directory permission, it fired right up. Thanks Tom! Thanks, David -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 4:26 PM To: David J. Fenske Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Can I substitute a recovered /data directory into a new installation? "David J. Fenske" <davidf@xxxxxxx> writes: > ... I have reset all file owner and > groups to the postgres user, and used chmod to give just the postgres > user rw permission (600, oh and 700 on the data directory itself). If you mean you made all the sub-directories mode 600, that would be your problem ... regards, tom lane
