Stuart Henderson, 22 Sep 2014 23:22: > good point :) > > <sthen@hub:~:1282>$ pg_ctl -D /var/postgresql/data status > pg_ctl: could not open PID file "/var/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid": > Permission denied
are you _postgresql? only that user (and root) has access to /var/postgresql -f -- our world: a 12715 km in diameter spherical pile of dirt.
