On 05/26/2015 10:57 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus <j...@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 -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
