Re: pgsql: Allow external recovery_config_directory

On 27 March 2013 12:02, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> Allow external recovery_config_directory
>> If required, recovery.conf can now be located outside of the data directory.
>> Server needs read/write permissions on this directory.
>
> Should we consider verifying that it has write permissions and fail
> early if not?

Sounds like a good plan. Will do.

> AFAICT, right now we fail *after* doing a bunch of things if the user
> only has readonly permissions?
>
> I'm sure a common thing will be for people to try to set this to
> /etc/postgresql or similar...

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