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Solution to Patroni FATAL: data directory *** has group or world access Error

If you see the following error in the log file while using the Patroni service with PostgreSQL, the reason is that the folder defined to data_dir has been given too much read/write and group privilege.

FATAL: data directory "/var/lib/pgsql/patroni" has group or world access

We use the following command to solve it.

chown postgres:postgres -R /var/lib/pgsql/patroni; chmod 700 -R /var/lib/pgsql/patroni

Do not forget to restart the Patroni service and check the status of the service with the commands below.

systemctl restart boss
systemctl status boss

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