Re: Fix pg_rewind which can be run as root user

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fix pg_rewind which can be run as root user
Date: 2018-04-09 19:31:08
Message-ID: 31356.1523302268@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Seems simple enough and the right hting to do, but I wonder if we should
> really backpatch it. Yes, the behaviour is not great now, but there is also
> a non-zero risk of breaking peoples automated failover scripts of we
> backpatch it, isn't it?

Yeah, I'd vote against backpatching. This doesn't seem like an essential
fix.

regards, tom lane

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