Re: pg_basebackup ignores the existing data directory permissions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: pg_basebackup ignores the existing data directory permissions
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Msg-id aa3216e1-e245-0287-8d26-f5cd892b8260@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: pg_basebackup ignores the existing data directory permissions  (Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: pg_basebackup ignores the existing data directory permissions
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On 2019-03-19 08:34, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> How about the following change?
> 
> pg_basebackup  --> copies the contents of the src directory (with group
> access) 
> and even the root directory permissions.
> 
> pg_basebackup --no-group-access   --> copies the contents of the src
> directory 
> (with no group access) even for the root directory.

I'm OK with that.  Perhaps a positive option --allow-group-access would
also be useful.

Let's make sure the behavior of these options is aligned with initdb.
And write tests for each variant.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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