I got this error when I did to chmod 755 -R /usr/local/pgsql
That was a bad idea. 700 is the most permission you should have on the
/usr/local/pgsql/data directory. I am not sure why the code is so picky
about postgresql.conf and not about the data directory as a whole ---
but it will refuse to start up if postgresql.conf has more than 744
permissions.
regards, tom lane
the answer was 744, I did 755 for because in that way the root user can work
with the driver for the aolserver that looks for libpq.so.2, so now I did 744
-R in pgsql/ and 755 -R in pgsql/lib/
