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From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Fix pg_rewind which can be run as root user
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Msg-id CAH2-WzmrGHGQq6rSDDKtgX9Gj_g_0BY6hS2V+4oJ-Qe0GHEUQg@mail.gmail.com
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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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On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> 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?

+1 to committing to master as a documented behavioral change.

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Peter Geoghegan

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