Re: change pid/gid

From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>
To: Ray Stell <stellr(at)vt(dot)edu>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: change pid/gid
Date: 2016-12-09 16:22:56
Message-ID: 20161209162256.3kcftdxa366jua5r@depesz.com
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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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