But the permissions of the base ramdisk might be wrong. I'd su to the
user that you run postgres as (probably postgres), and make sure that
you can go to the directory where the log and the database files are and
make sure you can see the files.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:03:47AM -0800, William Yu wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >William Yu <wyu@talisys.com> writes:
> >
> >>I then tried to put the WAL directory onto a ramdisk. I turned off
> >>swapping, created a tmpfs mount point and copied the pg_xlog directory
> >>over. Everything looked fine as far as I could tell but Postgres just
> >>panic'd with a "file permissions" error. Anybody have thoughts to why
> >>tmpfs would not work?
> >
> >
> >I'd say you got the file or directory ownership or permissions wrong.
>
> I did a mv instead of a cp which duplicates ownership & permissions exactly.
>
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