Hi Joost, Joost Kraaijeveld [2007-06-20 19:36 +0200]: > > ls -l /pgdata/8.2 > ls -l /pgdata/8.2/ > ls: /pgdata/8.2/: Permission denied
I figured it out and reproduced it. This happens if unix_socket_directory is not set in postgresql.conf. The current postgresql-common versions *do* set this value, but old ones didn't, so you still have a cluster which does not have this configured. In this case, postgresql-common needs to stat the data directory to find out the owner of the cluster and to determine the socket directory. This is mostly a problem of an unintelligible error message and only happens in some corner cases. So I'll improve the error message to fix this bug. Do you agree? Thank you, Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org
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