Re: current_logfiles not following group access and instead follows log_file_mode permissions

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 4:33 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 06:51:37PM +1100, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> > IMO, this update is just a recommendation to the user, and sometimes it
> is
> > still possible that there may be strict permissions for the log file
> > even the data directory is allowed for the group access. So I feel
> > it is still better to update the permissions of the current_logfiles
> > to the database files permissions than log file permissions.
>
> I was just reading again this thread, and the suggestions that
> current_logfiles is itself not a log file is also a sensible
> position.  I was just looking at the patch that you sent at the top of
> the thread here:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJrrPGcEotF1P7AWoeQyD3Pqr-0xkQg_Herv98DjbaMj+naozw@mail.gmail.com
>

Thanks for the review.


> And actually it seems to me that you have a race condition in that
> stuff.  I think that you had better use umask(), then fopen, and then
> once again umask() to put back the previous permissions, removing the
> extra chmod() call.
>

Changed the patch to use umask() instead of chmod() according to
your suggestion.

updated patch attached.

Regards,
Haribabu Kommi
Fujitsu Australia