Re: [GENERAL] WTF is going on with PG_VERSION?

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Alexey V. Borzov wrote:

> Greetings.
> 
> The problem is: from time to time, PostgreSQL seems to crash.
> Inspection of the logs revealed the following:
> 
> σΕΞ 18 15:53:06 arbat logger: FATAL 1:  File '/var/lib/pgsql/PG_VERSION' does not 
>exist or no read permission.
> 
> Well, '/var/lib/pgsql/PG_VERSION' does exist, it has read permission
> for user 'postgres' (I made it world readable, in fact, after I
> discovered this).
> 
> Now, two questions:
> 1) Who the hell needs to read this file?
> 2) Why can't he do it?

What version fo PostgreSQL are you running?