> You are doing the above as the database user ex:postgres?
confirmed:
ygg:/usr/home/ygg> whoami
pgsql
> The database user has permissions on /zdb/pgsql/data?
confirmed:
ygg:/usr/home/ygg> ll /zdb/
total 3
drwxrwxrwx 3 cvs wheel 3 Dec 12 15:33 cvsroot
drwxrwxrwx 2 pgsql wheel 2 Dec 13 10:17 pgsql