On 9/1/22 3:01 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Hi Everyone,

We are having a heck of a time getting PostreSQL utilities to honor
home directories. For example, when I execute this script:

     sudo -H -u postgres PGPASSWORD=${password} \
         psql -h "${hostname}" -U "${username}" -d "${database}" \
         --command="..."

Why are you doing this in the first place?

Just do:

psql -h "${hostname}" -U "${username}" -d "${database}" \
        --command="..."

and use .pgpass:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/libpq-pgpass.html

or set PGPASSWORD in your home env.


It produces failures:

     could not change directory to "/home/jwalton/godojo": Permission denied

/home/jwalton is my home directory. The postgres user does not have
access to my stuff. The postgres user's home directory is
/var/lib/pgsql .

Reading through the `psql --help` options and searching on the web is
not turning up any hits.

We are also observing the errors when using pg_isready .

How to make PostreSQL utilities honor home directories?

Thanks in advance.

Jeff




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Adrian Klaver
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