Tim Barnard writes:
> Well, I was logged in as postgres when this occured.
> I managed to resolve it by changing permissions on the /progs
> directory to rwx. It had been r-x. Strange error message for a permissions
> problem on a destination directory!
I'm not sure I follow. Given that executing a program doesn't require
write permission I assume this is your PGDATA. But PGDATA isn't checked
until after --version/-V has been evaluated. The easiest thing would be
to check what postgres -V would show (in the broken setup).
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