Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Isn't the file in /data, which is 700. Why do we care what permissions
> we give it?
Indeed. I could understand having a postmaster-start-time check that
$PGDATA has mode 700 (initdb makes this true anyway, but having the
postmaster double-check is not unreasonable). But I don't see why we
should expend cycles on checking the permissions of stuff inside
$PGDATA.
regards, tom lane