Horton

Re: initdb --allow-group-access behaviour in windows

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

View thread View on postgr.es
From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2019-02-01T08:14:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 05:34:05PM +1100, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> As Microsoft windows doesn't support POSIX style of permissions, we
> always set for the permissions GUC's as not supported in
> windows. Even the new GUC that is added with --allow-group-access
> feature also mentioned the same.
> 
> The initdb --allow-group-access doesn't have any impact on the
> microsoft windows, so I feel it should be better to write the same
> in initdb docs?

Sounds right.  We may just want an extra sentence in the paragraph
describing --allow-group-access to mention that this parameter has no
effect on Windows.

> need a patch?

Always.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Clarify behavior of initdb's --allow-group-access on Windows in docs