Re: Problems running postgres on XFS+LVM on Linux

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Stanaway <david(at)netventures(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Problems running postgres on XFS+LVM on Linux
Date: 2001-07-03 16:18:46
Message-ID: 19057.994177126@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Stanaway <david(at)netventures(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> Now postmaster fails to start correctly and consumes 100% of one CPU.

> The problem was ownership and permisions of /var/lib/postgres/data

> When I created the new filesystem and mount point
> The permisions of this directory were incorrect:
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jul 4 04:33 data

> When I set it to the correct state:
> drwx------ 5 postgres postgres 4096 Jul 4 04:33 data

> All was fine :)

Nonetheless, it shouldn't have done that --- you should get a useful
error report, not an infinite loop. Will fix.

regards, tom lane

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