Re: BUG #6652: Installer grants postgres user rights for the whole disk, not specified subfolder

Excerpts from Dave Page's message of mar jun 05 14:38:54 -0400 2012:
>
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> >> I have been installing PostgreSQL 9.1.3.2, and I've noted that 'creating
> >> database cluster' is too long. I have been waiting for a half of hour, and
> >> it hasn't finished.
> >> I've noted that installer calls icacls.exe with arguments:
> >> D:\ /grant "postgres":RX
> >
> > This seems to be reported every once in a while. It looks like the
> > one-clunk installer is to blame. Maybe it's been fixed in some more
> > recent version -- Dave Page would probably know.
>
> Just as an FYI, we are working on this. We've been able to reproduce
> it, and it appears that icacls (a Microsoft utility) will sometimes
> look at the ACL of every file/directory recursively when it grants the
> required privileges on higher level directories. The good news is that
> in none of the test we've done has it ever modified the ACL on the
> wrong thing - it just takes a long time if there are a lot of items on
> the filesystem. We've looked at third party alternatives to icacls,
> and they seem to exhibit similar traits. We're also going to look into
> other ways around the root problem.

The 9.1.4 installer is still exhibiting this behavior; not as bad as
the original bug, but still pushing 30 minutes. Has there been any
luck with finding a work-around?

Thank you,
Trey

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Trey Chadick (LabKey Software)
tchad(at)labkey(dot)com