I'm trying to get a new build of 9.6.1 working on Debian stable and I'm seeing some odd behavior where things work correctly if I run psql when logged in as user 'postgres', but if I'm logged-in as user 'doom' (my usual login), I don't seem to have any select privileges. Even this fails silently: select 'world' as hello; But if run logged in as 'postgres', all is well: sudo su - postgres /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql --dbname=doom --username=doom doom=# select 'world' as hello; select 'world' as hello; hello ------- world Note that I'm talking about the unix logins, in both cases the postgresql username/role is 'doom' (which has Superuser privileges and is the owner of the 'doom' database). I've got my pg_hba.conf setup to use "trust" for all users: # TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD local all all trust host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust Looking at how the program files are installed, I see they're all owned by 'root' with group 'staff': ls -la /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 516824 Nov 26 23:20 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql On speculation, I added doom to the staff group and reloaded pg, but that didn't help. I see that the data files are all owned by postgres, but I don't think that's unusual (or else I'd try adding 'doom' to the 'postgres' group, and adding g+rwx privs to the data files): drwx------ 1 postgres postgres 42 Nov 26 16:14 base I'm running out of ideas for things to check. Any suggestions? Some more info, for completeness sake: \du List of roles Role name | Attributes | Member of -----------+------------------------------------------------------------+----------- doom | Superuser, Create role, Create DB | {} postgres | Superuser, Create role, Create DB, Replication, Bypass RLS | {} \l List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges -----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+----------------------- doom | doom | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | ... -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general