I wrote:
> Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com> writes:
>> Excluding the file in the backup can solve the problem of backup by an
>> unprivileged user. Is there any scenarios it can cause problems if it
>> doesn't follow the group access mode?
> The point of this file, as I understood it, was to allow someone who's
> allowed to read the log files to find out which one is the latest. It
> makes zero sense for it to have different permissions from the log files,
> because doing that would break its only use-case.
On reflection, maybe the problem is not that we're giving the file
the wrong permissions, but that we're putting it in the wrong place?
That is, seems like it should be in the logfile directory not the
data directory. That would certainly simplify the intended use-case,
and it would fix this complaint too.
regards, tom lane