On Mar 26, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
After I sent my last email, a light bulb went off. I remembered a similar problem I had a while ago with parts of postgres not having read permission. Sure enough after I

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/pgsql]# chmod -R a+r *

then restart postgres everything is fine.

This is a IMHO a bug in the install script. All of the postgres install should be world readable, regardless of the umask (or at least provide a warning).

What? Are you actually saying that a PG data directory should be world readable? That will never happen as that throws out even the most basic security facilities.

Erik Jones

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