Re: Timezones in 8.2.7

From: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
To: Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Timezones in 8.2.7
Date: 2008-03-27 14:35:18
Message-ID: 06E2D7A2-444C-4A2F-A891-6F9FD93C4D0D@myemma.com
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On Mar 26, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> After I sent my last email, a light bulb went off. I remembered a
> similar problem I had a while ago with parts of postgres not having
> read permission. Sure enough after I
>
> [root(at)xx /usr/local/pgsql]# chmod -R a+r *
>
> then restart postgres everything is fine.
>
> This is a IMHO a bug in the install script. All of the postgres
> install should be world readable, regardless of the umask (or at
> least provide a warning).

What? Are you actually saying that a PG data directory should be
world readable? That will never happen as that throws out even the
most basic security facilities.

Erik Jones

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