David Stanaway <david@netventures.com.au> writes:
>> Now postmaster fails to start correctly and consumes 100% of one CPU.
> The problem was ownership and permisions of /var/lib/postgres/data
> When I created the new filesystem and mount point
> The permisions of this directory were incorrect:
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jul 4 04:33 data
> When I set it to the correct state:
> drwx------ 5 postgres postgres 4096 Jul 4 04:33 data
> All was fine :)
Nonetheless, it shouldn't have done that --- you should get a useful
error report, not an infinite loop. Will fix.
regards, tom lane