On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Darren Duncan <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The owner of these new files needs to be the same as that of your Pg data > dir in general or postgresql.conf specifically, and that owner be the same > as the process that runs the Pg server. Are you running Pg as root? (In > any event, you should have another user; running programs or servers as root > when they don't need root powers is generally a bad idea.) -- Darren Duncan Actually, unless you've hacked the pg code, it won't start as root. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general