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Prevent running pg_basebackup as root

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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Commit: 7bae0ad9fcb76b28410571dc71edfdc3175c4a02
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2020-02-01T09:30:25Z
Releases: 13.0 
Prevent running pg_basebackup as root

Similarly to pg_upgrade, pg_ctl and initdb, a root user is able to use
--version and --help, but cannot execute the actual operation to avoid
the creation of files with permissions incompatible with the
postmaster.

This is a behavior change, so not back-patching is done.

Author: Ian Barwick
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABvVfJVqOdD2neLkYdygdOHvbWz_5K_iWiqY+psMfA=FeAa3qQ@mail.gmail.com

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src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c modified +16 −0

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