| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: fsync bug faq for publication? |
| Date: | 2015-05-26 18:20:58 |
| Message-ID: | 5564B98A.40600@agliodbs.com |
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On 05/26/2015 10:57 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>> Where did we get the idea that this issue only affects symlinked files?
>
> Nobody said any such thing. My point was that permissions and ownership
> both have to be looked at. The Debian situation is that there are symlinks
> in $PGDATA pointing at root-owned files, and those files are (we think)
> also used by other services; so Magnus' point was that you'd probably
> better copy those files not modify their ownership/permissions in situ.
Updated, please make further corrections so I can get an announcement
out ASAP. Thanks!
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/May_2015_Fsync_Permissions_Bug
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
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