[Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#834264: postgresql-common: pg_* tools should set current workingdir

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Source: postgresql-common
Version: 165+deb8u1
Severity: normal


Hey.

Just close this if it's already fixed in more recent versions:
When doing e.g.
# pg_createcluster 9.4 test
Creating new cluster 9.4/test ...
  config /etc/postgresql/9.4/test
  data   /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/test
  locale en_DE.UTF-8
Flags of /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/test set as -------------e-C
could not change directory to "/root": Permission denied
  port   5433

>From within a directory not readable by postgresql, one get's the:
could not change directory to "/root": Permission denied


These tools should perhaps all "cd /" in some early place :)


Cheers,
Chris.


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