Check where you are executing this.....the user postgres does not have
permission to write logfile in your current directory
Victor Escobar wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm getting the following error when I do this step:
>
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &
>
> Exit 1: Permission denied: logfile 2>&1 &
>
> I did a chown on /usr/local/pgsql/data and am running this as postgres.
>
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> TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
> choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
> match
>