On 05/26/2015 10:57 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Where did we get the idea that this issue only affects symlinked files?
>
> Nobody said any such thing. My point was that permissions and ownership
> both have to be looked at. The Debian situation is that there are symlinks
> in $PGDATA pointing at root-owned files, and those files are (we think)
> also used by other services; so Magnus' point was that you'd probably
> better copy those files not modify their ownership/permissions in situ.
Updated, please make further corrections so I can get an announcement
out ASAP. Thanks!
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/May_2015_Fsync_Permissions_Bug
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