Re: [ADMIN] change pid/gid

On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 10:21:43AM -0500, Ray Stell wrote:
> Due to some external, sysadmin issues, I'm forced to change the pid/gid of
> the postresql user on CentOS6.  I'm wondering if this plan of action has any
> flaws.  It seemed to work in a test environment to shutdown and change the
> pid/gid via:
>
>
>     find / -uid 1500 -exec chown -h 2500:2500 {} \; (as root, of course)
> Startup went ok, but I've not done this in production and find myself a
> little nervous.  I'll test in a hotstandby config here in a moment.  Any
> gotchas hiding in there?

no real gotchas, but change \; to + so that it will be MUCH faster.

Best regards,

depesz

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