Richard Huxton wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2004 10:07, Gavin Sherry wrote: > > > > CREATE TABLESPACE tbl1 LOCATION '/var/' > > > > which will result in something like '/var/123443' is a bad idea. Then > > again, the user should know better. Comments? > > The LOCATION should have the same owner and permissions as $PGDATA - that > should catch mistyping. > > Unless you're running as root, of course. In which case you clearly know > better than everyone else, so off you go!
FYI, you can't run the postmaster as root. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
