Yes, and sorry about the re-post. I thought my original message was
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On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Adrian Klaver
<adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/03/2016 12:08 PM, Joseph Brenner wrote:
>>
>> 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 |
>> ...
>>
>>
>
> Did you receive the previous suggestions?
>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx
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