On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, John R Pierce wrote:
did the system run some sort of fsck autorepair when it restarted? thats about the only thing I could think of that might have messed with the permissions.
The file system is ext3 so it did restore from the journals. Anyway, now I know if I should ever again be unable to start postgres, check the permissions per the error message. Thanks again, Rich -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
