Re: PGDATA not accessible; please fix the directory permissions ($PGDATA should be world readable)

I found something out but not sure I understand why this is causing an
issue:
find / -name psql -print -exec ls -l {} \;
/usr/bin/psql -> ../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/psql

The search path was finding the first entry. When I put the
"/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin" path first in the PATH variablepsql
works fine. Does any one know why
../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper exists and why it would give me
a problem for non postgres Unix accounts?

Thanks
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:49:27 -0400, jtkells(at)verizon(dot)net wrote:

>
>
>postgresql 8.4.8 64 bit /Ubuntu 10.4 64 bit
>
>When I try to connect to postgresql from a local user on the same
>machine that postgresql is running on I receive the following:
>psql
>Error: /pgdata/data is not accessible; please fix the directory
>permissions (/pgdata/ should be world readable)
>
>whats even worse if I try to connect to postgresql using localhost I
>get the same problem
> psql -h localhost -p 5432 -d DB -U user1
>Error:/pgdata/data not accessible; please fix the directory
>permissions (/pgdata/ should be world readable)
>
>I dont have this problem from the local postgres account nor do I have
>any problem connecting to the database remotely using TCP/IP.
>
>If I change the unix_socket_directory setting to /tmp I get the
>following error when I try to log on locally from postgres
>
>psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket
>"/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
>
>Not sure what is going on.
>
>pg_hba
># "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
>local all all ident
># IPv4 local connections:
>host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
>host all all 192.0.0.0/8 md5
>