Re: PATCH: Configurable file mode mask

Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net> writes:
> On 03/13/2018 01:50 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> I'll point out that PG does run on quite a few other OS's beyond Linux.

> I'll second that, as I think it is making my argument. When I can
> supply three or four examples of semantic subtleties that undermine
> PG's assumptions under Linux alone, the picture when broadened to
> those quite-a-few other platforms as well certainly doesn't become
> simpler!

Well, to be blunt, what we target is POSIX-compatible systems.  If
you're telling us to worry about non-POSIX filesystem semantics,
and your name is not Microsoft, it's going to be a hard sell.
We have enough to do just keeping up with that scope of target
systems.

            regards, tom lane