Re: [GENERAL] Permission Denied Error on pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG file

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2016-05-26 12:44:51 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 2016-04-27 17:02:06 EDT 572128cd.1811 [7-1] user=,db=,remote= FATAL:  42501:
> could not open file "pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG": Permission denied

> So, what's the permission of RECOVERYXLOG at that point?  It's pretty
> weird that directly after running reason_command it's not readable.

s/not readable/not writable/.  I doubt that it's a good idea for that
code to think that it can fail hard on non-writable files.
        regards, tom lane