On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 3:55 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jk...@postgresql.org> wrote:
> On 11/16/20 4:27 AM, Dave Page wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is more of a head-ups than anything else, as I suspect this may > > come up in various forums. > > > > The PostgreSQL installers for macOS (from EDB, possibly others too) > > create the data directory in /Library/PostgreSQL/<major_ver>/data. This > > has been the case since the first release, 10+ years ago. > > > > It looks like the Big Sur upgrade has taken it upon itself to "fix" any > > filesystem permissions it doesn't like. On my system, this resulted in > > the data directory having 0755 permissions, which meant that PostgreSQL > > refused to start. Manually changing the permissions back to 0700 (0750 > > should also work) fixes the issue. > > > > I'm not sure there's much we can do about this - systems that are likely > > to be affected are already out there, and we obviously don't want to > > relax the permissions Postgres requires. > > Thanks for raising this. We should provide some guidance on upgrading > this when upgrading to Big Sur. > > Do we know where the other macOS installers place their data > directories? We should reach out to the installer maintainers to see if > they are seeing the same behavior so we know what guidance to issue. > I believe postgres.app only installs for the current user, and puts it's data under ~/Library/Application Support/Postgres. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
