Permissions trouble upgrading data container

I recently rebuilt a data container that was 2 years old. The new container expected different permissions than the old one did, presumably because the postgres user and group had new IDs in the current base OS.

I fixed it by running this inside the container:

 chown -R postgres:postgres /shared/postgres_*

Maybe in a single-container setup this isn’t necessary because a chown gets done in some other template?

The next rebuild failed because the discourse user was not allowed to enable the pgvector extension. I resolved this by running this query in postgres as the postgres user:

 ALTER USER discourse WITH SUPERUSER;
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