On 2019-03-19 08:34, Haribabu Kommi wrote: > How about the following change? > > pg_basebackup --> copies the contents of the src directory (with group > access) > and even the root directory permissions. > > pg_basebackup --no-group-access --> copies the contents of the src > directory > (with no group access) even for the root directory.
I'm OK with that. Perhaps a positive option --allow-group-access would also be useful. Let's make sure the behavior of these options is aligned with initdb. And write tests for each variant. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services