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.
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