Re: pg_recvlogical: honor source cluster file permissions for output files

On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 4:17 PM Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
>
> The test you added checks that pg_recvlogical creates output files with
> mode 0640 when the cluster is initialized with group access enabled.
> However, it does not check the opposite case, i.e., that pg_recvlogical
> creates output files with mode 0600 when group access is disabled.
>
> It seems we should test both cases, similar to what 010_basebackup.pl
> does?
>
> As far as I can tell, 010_basebackup.pl initializes the cluster without
> group
> access and checks the backup permissions, then enables group access using
> chmod_recursive() and verifies that group permissions are also applied to
> the backup. I updated the TAP test following this approach and attached
> a revised patch.
>

+1 , I totally missed this case :), patch LGTM.

>
> I'm currently thinking of backpatching the fix itself to all supported
> branches,
> but adding the test only to master. Because it does not seem worthwhile to
> spend much time backporting the test to older branches, where the test code
> differs much from master. Thought?
>

makes sense.

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