Stuart,
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:12:38PM -0000, Henshall, Stuart - WCP wrote:
> When trying to start the postmaster on win98se with cygwin
> I get told that the data directory must be 0700, but when I try to chmod to
> 700, it apparently succeds, but nothing permissions stay at 755. I suspect
> this to be because win98 has no real file protection (just a read only
> attribute)
Is this a new behavior with 7.2? If so, then the PostgreSQL code may
need to be changed to defeat these kinds of security checks on Windows
9x/Me. Sorry, but I don't have the 9x/Me kind of itch...
Jason