Re: Could not create a tablespace - permission denied

Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm> writes:
> While attempting to create a tablespace as the postgres user under RHEL5
> with *no* SELinux enabled, I get the following error:

> postgres=# CREATE TABLESPACE fma LOCATION '/home/chandler/fma/db/pgsql';
> ERROR:  could not set permissions on directory
> "/home/chandler/fma/db/pgsql": Permission denied

> The user postgres is able to access the directory, and the user postgres
> is able to set permissions on the directory to 0700:

> -bash-3.1$ chmod 700 /home/chandler/fma/db/pgsql

If you can do that from a shell running as postgres, then I think
selinux is not so disabled as you think.  Ordinary file permissions are
applied uniformly to all processes running as a given userid, but
selinux is different.

            regards, tom lane