While I do appreciate the vote of confidence, rest assured you will never see a post from me that starts with "So I've been hacking the pg code and..." On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
