Re: initdb must have write access to /tmp

>
> Hi,
>
> I was just installing postgres 7.1.2 on my linux mandrake 7.2
> system and the build and install went fine up to the point I
> had to run:
>
> initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> which segfaulted. I changed the permissions on /tmp to 777
> and all was well. I think initdb could use an if statement to
> check the permissions on /tmp and report a descriptive bug.

I think this will be fixed in 7.2. I don't see initdb referencing /tmp
at all and postmaster/postgres have some fixes when they fail to write
to /tmp. In fact, I just initdb'ed with temp unwritable so it seems
this is certainly fixed.

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