Re: log files and permissions

Martin Pihlak <martin.pihlak@gmail.com>

From: Martin Pihlak <martin.pihlak@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-16T10:15:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com> writes:
>> ...
>> We should also check the value not to be something like 0699.
>> How about checking it with (file_mode & ~0666) != 0 ?
>> ...
>> I want show_log_file_mode to print the setting value in octal format.
> 
> It seems like a whole lot of lily-gilding is going on here.  Just make
> it work like unix_socket_permissions already does.  That's been there
> for years and nobody has complained about it.
> 

Thanks, somehow I missed that we can already specify octal integers
as GUC-s. I now converted the log_file_mode to integer and dropped
the assign_log_file_mode function.

regards,
Martin