On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:30:17AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Dick Snippe" <Dick.Snippe@tech.omroep.nl> writes:
> > setting umask 077 makes sense for the data files, but not per se for the
> > logfile.
>
> The logfile typically contains data just as sensitive as the data files,
true.
> so I disagree.
we run postgresql as a database engine behind a number of websites.
Typically all the data in the database is public data . It would be very
nice if there was a method of letting our developers _read_ the logfile,
without giving them _write_ access to the data files.
What wrong with making this configurable?
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