On 06/25/2012 04:21 PM, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
I just went back to the postgres documentation [1] (actually reading all google 
results on the error message one after the other) and tried out what was said 
there (adapted to my conditions):

sudo -u _postgres /usr/local/pgsql-9.1/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql-9.1/data

and suddenly postgres runs….
And for whatever reason, after having worked this morning, it doesn't work 
anymore after I restarted the computer in the middle of the day. I can't 
believe it.

When I type in:

     sudo -u _postgres /usr/local/pgsql-9.1/bin/postgres -D 
/usr/local/pgsql-9.1/data

it spits out:

     LOG:  00000: could not identify current directory: Permission denied
'cd' to the postgresql datadir before running the command, or use pg_ctl instead of trying to launch the postgres server executable directly.

It's trying to get information on the current directory - probably your home dir - but the _postgres user doesn't have access to it.

--
Craig Ringer

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