On 07/09/2018 17:59, Maksim Milyutin wrote: >> You are still proposing to hint that the permissions on the tablespace >> directory might be correct but that the main database instance is >> running under the wrong user. > Not exactly this way. The case that motivated me to make this patch was > the novice user after installing postgres from package (with setting up > postgres user and initializing PGDATA with right permissions) tried to > create the necessary tablespace directories from himself (the owner of > those directories was that user). The error message "could not set > permissions on directory ..." disoriented that user. The need to change > the owner of those directories came after careful reading of > documentation. I think it would be helpful to show the proposed hint to > more operatively resolve the problem.
I think it might be worth clarifying the documentation instead. I'm looking at the CREATE TABLESPACE reference page and it's not super clear on first reading. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
