On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:14:37PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > The downside of this is that a real EACCES problem wouldn't get noted at > any level higher than LOG, and so you could theoretically lose data > without much warning. But I'm not seeing anything else we could do > about it --- AFAIK we have not heard of a way we can distinguish this > case from a real permissions problem. And anyway there should never > *be* a real permissions problem; if there is then the user's been poking > under the hood sufficient to void the warranty anyway ;-) Or some other "helpful" process such as a virus scanner has been poking under the hood for you... :( Given that this could result in data loss, if this was to be done I'd very much want to see a way to disable it in a production environment. -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)