Sorry about that, I'll resubmit this in postgresql-common. Thanks!
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 2:02 PM Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
Re: PG Bug reporting form 2018-10-12 <15429-288b7c42f9d8be13@postgresql.org> > We've encountered an issue where psql requires "-h localhost" to run any > commands on PostgreSQL 10.5 machine. > > $ psql --version > Error: Invalid data directory for cluster 10 main > $ psql -h localhost --version > psql (PostgreSQL) 10.5 (Ubuntu 10.5-1.pgdg14.04+1) > > The issue is resolved by adding world-read access to postgresql.conf to > allow psql to read "data_directory", but this is something we've never had > to do with previous postgres versions.
Hi,
this is not a PostgreSQL problem, but in postgresql-common, which is specific to Debian and Ubuntu.
We should probably demote that message to a warning.
