On fim, 2007-06-07 at 10:38 +0200, Johannes Konert wrote: > Hi postgresql-listmembers, > for a backup-scenario I need to have access to the pgdata-directory as a > different shell-user, but postgresqul refuses to start if chmod is not > 700 on the directory. > > Is there a way to prevent postgres to check the data-dirs chmod 700 on > startup (and while running) ? use sudo in your backup scenario, or run you backup as postgres gnari