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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Fix pg_rewind which can be run as root user
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Msg-id 31356.1523302268@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Fix pg_rewind which can be run as root user  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Seems simple enough and the right hting to do, but I wonder if we should
> really backpatch it. Yes, the behaviour is not great now, but there is also
> a non-zero risk of breaking peoples automated failover scripts of we
> backpatch it, isn't it?

Yeah, I'd vote against backpatching.  This doesn't seem like an essential
fix.

            regards, tom lane

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