Re: Suppress checking of chmod 700 on data-dir?

Johannes Konert wrote:
> Ragnar wrote:
>>> are you planning a filesystem-level backup?
> As war as I understood the docu of psql 8.2.4
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/continuous-archiving.html
> section 23.3.2) you can copy the files while postgres is running
> (respecting pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup)
> But that is not my point. The question is where I can change the
> enforced chmod 700 postgresql always wants me to set.

You can't.

You can however change the postgresql.conf to put look for files
somewhere besides $PGDATA and thus you would be able to back them up.

Anything else in there you should be grabbing via pg_dump anyway.

Joshua D. Drake


> Regards Johannes :)
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