Re: PATCH: Configurable file mode mask

On 1/3/18 08:11, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 11:43 AM, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
>>>> I think MakeDirectory() is a good wrapper, but isn't
>>> MakeDirectoryPerm() sort of silly?
>>
>> There's one place in the backend (storage/ipc/ipc.c) that sets non-default
>> directory permissions.  This function is intended to support that and any
>> extensions that need to set custom perms.
> 
> Yeah, but all it does is call mkdir(), which could just as well be
> called directly.  I think there's a pointer to a wrapper when it does
> something for you -- supply an argument, log something, handle
> portability concerns -- but this wrapper does exactly nothing.

Yeah, I didn't like this aspect when this patch was originally
submitted.  We want to keep the code legible for future new
contributors.  Having these generic-sounding but specific-in-purpose
wrapper functions can be pretty confusing.  Let's use mkdir() when it's
the appropriate function, and let's figure out a different name for
"make a data directory subdirectory in a secure and robust way".

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