On Tue, 2018-11-06 at 15:17 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 04:27:35PM +1100, rob stone wrote: > > Logged in as user postgres and postgres owns the files created by > > initdb, so is this a permissions problem or am I having a brain > > fade? > > Having 0600 as umask for those files is normal. Don't you have more > logs about the error? You should not see this error, except if > data_v10 > is not a data folder initialized correctly, so perhaps you messed up > something in your environment? > -- > Michael Problem caused by my eyesight. A colleague pointed out the typo in the argument to the -d parameter. Working as intended. Sorry for the noise. My apologies. Thanks, Robert