Re: Permission Denied When i am Trying to take Backup

Hi!

> > I always do a chown -R postgres:daemon /usr/local/pgsql (or
> > postgres:postgres) after installation.
>
>Which is a bad idea.
>
>The installation instructions were developed with some thought behind
>them.

Well, this might be true, if you are on a system, where more than one
humans are operating. Or are there some other reasons behind this philosophy?
I mean, a buffer overflow (I don't claim to know of any in Postgres) can
cause more problems when running as root than as user.

Can anyone explain these thoughts behind the instructions? Or pinpoint me
to the explanations in the docs.

Stefan

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