Re: pg_basebackup ignores the existing data directory permissions

On 2019-03-22 05:00, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 02:45:24PM +1100, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
>> How about letting the pg_basebackup to decide group permissions of the
>> standby directory irrespective of the primary directory permissions.
>>
>> Default - permissions are same as primary
>> --allow-group-access - standby directory have group access permissions
>> --no-group--access - standby directory doesn't have group permissions
>>
>> The last two options behave irrespective of the primary directory
>> permissions.
> 
> Yes, I'd imagine that we would want to be able to define three
> different behaviors, by either having a set of options, or a sinple
> option with a switch, say --group-access:
> - "inherit" causes the permissions to be inherited from the source
> node, and that's the default.
> - "none" enforces the default 0700/0600.
> - "group" enforces group read access.

Yes, we could use those three behaviors.

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