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. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
