Re: pg_rewind fails if there is a read only file.

On 5/25/21 9:38 AM, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-05-25 at 16:57 +0800, Paul Guo wrote:
>>> You seem to have missed my point completely. The answer to this problem
>>> IMNSHO is "Don't put a read-only file in the data directory".
>> Oh sorry. Well, if we really do not want this we may want to document this
>> and keep educating users, but meanwhile probably the product should be
>> more user friendly for the case, especially considering
>> that we know the fix would be trivial and I suspect it is inevitable that some
>> extensions put some read only files (e.g. credentials files) in pgdata.
> Good idea. I suggest this documentation page:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/creating-cluster.html
>
> Perhaps something along the line of:
>
> It is not supported to manually create, delete or modify files in the
> data directory, unless they are configuration files or the documentation
> explicitly says otherwise (for example, <file>recovery.signal</file>
> for archive recovery).
>

Perhaps we should add that read-only files can be particularly problematic.

cheers

andrew

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