Re: pg_upgrade permission check - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pg_upgrade permission check
Date
Msg-id 201105161557.p4GFvck25655@momjian.us
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In response to Re: pg_upgrade permission check  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pg_upgrade permission check  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > I have added the attached patch to pg_upgrade to print a clear error
> > message if you don't have read/write/execute permission in the current
> > directory, which is needed for pg_upgrade to read/write temporary files.
> 
> "full access permissions" seems unhelpfully vague.  Why not say
> "you must have both read and write access to the current directory"?

OK, I can do that, but they need execute permission in that directory
too to look up file names in there.  Should I say execute too?

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