Re: pg_basebackup ignores the existing data directory permissions

On 2019-03-18 08:32, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>     Going based on the current setting of the directory seems defensible to
>     me, with the argument of "we trust you created the directory the way you
>     want the rest of the system to be".
> 
> 
> Which I believe is also how a plain unix cp (or tar or whatever) would
> work, isn't it? I think that alone is a pretty strong reason to work the
> same as those -- they're not entirely unsimilar.

Those don't copy over the network.  In the case of pg_basebackup, there
is nothing that ensures that the remote system has the same users or
groups or permission setup.

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