On 2019-03-18 16:45, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I'm strongly in favor of keeping initdb and pg_basebackup options
>> similar and consistent. They are both ways to initialize data directories.
>>
>> You'll note that initdb does not behave the way you describe. It's not
>> unreasonable behavior, but it's not the way it currently works.
> So you want to default to no group access regardless of the directory
> permissions, with an option to enable group access that must be
> explicitly specified? That seems like a reasonable option to me; note
> that initdb does seem to chdir() an existing directory.
I think that would have been my preference, but PG11 is already shipping
with the current behavior, so I'm not sure whether that should be changed.
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