Re: [HACKERS] heads up -- subtle change of behavior of new initdb

darnit!

patch attached.

(Thinks - do we need to worry about suid sgid and sticky bits on data dir?)

andrew

Tom Lane wrote:

>Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
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>>I just noticed tonight that the new initdb introduced a subtle change of
>>behavior. I use a shell script to automate the process of
>>- rm old data directory
>>- mkdir new data directory
>>- initdb
>>- load from pgdumpall
>>Now, that second step is not needed, but as of today it produces an
>>installation that won't start due to improper permissions on data
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>That's a bug --- evidently the "fix permissions" path of control is
>wrong; can you take a look?
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