On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 21:08, Joseph S <jks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I upgraded from 8.4.2 to 8.4.3, and I couldn't start postgres. This was > printed on STDERR > > FATAL: data directory "path-to-my-data-dir" has group or world access > DETAIL: Permissions should be u=rwx (0700). > > This change was not documented in the release notes, and I don't think > permission != 700 should be a fatal error. I purposely set o+x to let any > user be able to read the log files. There has been no change there. From what I can tell, that part of the code hasn't been touched since 2004. That shouldn've have worked in 8.4.2 either - but it's only checked on server startup, so if you changed the mode after startup you wouldn't have noticed. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
