But the permissions of the base ramdisk might be wrong. I'd su to the user that you run postgres as (probably postgres), and make sure that you can go to the directory where the log and the database files are and make sure you can see the files.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:03:47AM -0800, William Yu wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > >William Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>I then tried to put the WAL directory onto a ramdisk. I turned off > >>swapping, created a tmpfs mount point and copied the pg_xlog directory > >>over. Everything looked fine as far as I could tell but Postgres just > >>panic'd with a "file permissions" error. Anybody have thoughts to why > >>tmpfs would not work? > > > > > >I'd say you got the file or directory ownership or permissions wrong. > > I did a mv instead of a cp which duplicates ownership & permissions exactly. > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster -- Dror Matalon Zapatec Inc 1700 MLK Way Berkeley, CA 94709 http://www.fastbuzz.com http://www.zapatec.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
