Re: pg_upgrade permission check

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> "full access permissions" seems unhelpfully vague. Why not say
> >> "you must have both read and write access to the current directory"?
>
> > OK, I can do that, but they need execute permission in that directory
> > too to look up file names in there. Should I say execute too?
>
> I doubt it's worth worrying about. man chdir saith
>
> In order for a directory to become the current directory, a process must
> have execute (search) access to the directory.
>
> I'm not entirely certain what happens if you chdir into a directory and
> then someone revokes the bit afterwards, but I do not feel a need to
> complicate the error message to cover such a case.

OK, fixed the the attached applied patch.

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