Re: pg_basebackup ignores the existing data directory permissions

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_basebackup ignores the existing data directory permissions
Date: 2019-03-14 23:33:44
Message-ID: 1a6d580f-edc6-1453-c6e2-9a493c95fdc0@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-03-09 02:19, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> Yes, I agree that it may be a problem if the existing data directory
> permissions
> are 0700 to changing it to 0750. But it may not be a problem for the
> scenarios,
> where the existing data permissions  >=0750, to the upstream permissions.
> Because user must need to change anyway to start the server, otherwise
> server
> start fails, and also the files inside the data folder follows the
> permissions of the
> upstream data directory.
>
> usually production systems follows same permissions are of upstream, I don't
> see a problem in following the same for development environment also?

I think the potential problems of getting this wrong are bigger than the
issue we are trying to fix.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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