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Re: PATCH: Configurable file mode mask

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Adam Brightwell <adam.brightwell@crunchydata.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-03-13T18:47:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net> writes:
> On 03/13/2018 01:50 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> I'll point out that PG does run on quite a few other OS's beyond Linux.

> I'll second that, as I think it is making my argument. When I can
> supply three or four examples of semantic subtleties that undermine
> PG's assumptions under Linux alone, the picture when broadened to
> those quite-a-few other platforms as well certainly doesn't become
> simpler!

Well, to be blunt, what we target is POSIX-compatible systems.  If
you're telling us to worry about non-POSIX filesystem semantics,
and your name is not Microsoft, it's going to be a hard sell.
We have enough to do just keeping up with that scope of target
systems.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Allow group access on PGDATA

  2. Refactor dir/file permissions

  3. Revert "Add basic TAP test setup for pg_upgrade"

  4. Add basic TAP test setup for pg_upgrade