Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 21:08, Joseph S <jks@selectacast.net> wrote:
>> I upgraded from 8.4.2 to 8.4.3, and I couldn't start postgres. This was
>> printed on STDERR
>>
>> FATAL: �data directory "path-to-my-data-dir" has group or world access
>> DETAIL: �Permissions should be u=rwx (0700).
>>
>> This change was not documented in the release notes, and I don't think
>> permission != 700 should be a fatal error. �I purposely set o+x to let any
>> user be able to read the log files.
> There has been no change there. From what I can tell, that part of the
> code hasn't been touched since 2004.
The restriction was introduced in 7.2 ...
regards, tom lane