Re: Bypassing Directory Ownership Check in PostgreSQL 16.6 with Secure z/OS NFS (AT-TLS)
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Amol Inamdar <amol.aai@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>,
pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-07-17T05:14:33Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Amol Inamdar <amol.aai@gmail.com> writes: > @Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> >> If you pre-create the data directory with the appropriate permissions, >> what keeps you from giving ownership to the correct user too? > Our NFS server is not a regular linux based server, > it's on zOS (Mainframes) with AT-TLS security enabled, > hence it doesn't allow changing of ownership. Not only is that not a fit storage substrate for Postgres, it's pretty hard to imagine that it's a fit substrate for anything. "Every file on this filesystem must belong to the same owner" is a concept that should have gone out with floppy disks. You need some extremely fundamental re-examination of your design decisions. At the moment I am content to say that Postgres does not support this storage mechanism and we do not intend to do so in the future. regards, tom lane