Re: pg_upgrade permission check
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-16T15:57:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes: > > I have added the attached patch to pg_upgrade to print a clear error > > message if you don't have read/write/execute permission in the current > > directory, which is needed for pg_upgrade to read/write temporary files. > > "full access permissions" seems unhelpfully vague. Why not say > "you must have both read and write access to the current directory"? OK, I can do that, but they need execute permission in that directory too to look up file names in there. Should I say execute too? -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +