Re: log files and permissions

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Martin Pihlak <martin.pihlak@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-01T17:07:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Martin Pihlak <martin.pihlak@gmail.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> It doesn't appear to me that this helps unless you are willing to make
>> the containing director(ies) group-readable/executable as well, which is
>> something we've resisted doing.

> The log can be moved outside of data directory by setting "log_directory"
> to an absolute path.

Oh, of course.  We'd need to mention that in the documentation for the
log-file-permission GUC.

			regards, tom lane