Re: pg_basebackup ignores the existing data directory permissions

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 02:45:24PM +1100, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> How about letting the pg_basebackup to decide group permissions of the
> standby directory irrespective of the primary directory permissions.
>
> Default - permissions are same as primary
> --allow-group-access - standby directory have group access permissions
> --no-group--access - standby directory doesn't have group permissions
>
> The last two options behave irrespective of the primary directory
> permissions.

Yes, I'd imagine that we would want to be able to define three
different behaviors, by either having a set of options, or a sinple
option with a switch, say --group-access:
- "inherit" causes the permissions to be inherited from the source
node, and that's the default.
- "none" enforces the default 0700/0600.
- "group" enforces group read access.
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Michael