On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net> wrote:
> The owner of these new files needs to be the same as that of your Pg data
> dir in general or postgresql.conf specifically, and that owner be the same
> as the process that runs the Pg server. Are you running Pg as root? (In
> any event, you should have another user; running programs or servers as root
> when they don't need root powers is generally a bad idea.) -- Darren Duncan
Actually, unless you've hacked the pg code, it won't start as root.