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

On 5/25/21 10:29 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> Perhaps we should add that read-only files can be particularly problematic.
> Given the (legitimate, IMO) example of a read-only SSL key, I'm not
> quite convinced that pg_rewind doesn't need to cope with this.
>
>             


If we do decide to do something the question arises what should it do?
If we're to allow for it I'm wondering if the best thing would be simply
to ignore such a file.


cheers


andrew

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