Hi Robert/Andres, On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> > wrote: > > On 2015-07-23 11:26:27 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:29 PM, dinesh kumar <dineshkuma...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > Would like to propose PERMISSIVE mode for the COPY created out files. > >> > I mean, at this moment, if do "COPY" as postgres instance owner, i > can able > >> > to read the file as non instance user as well, and would like to > restrict > >> > this to > >> > instance owner WITH PERMISSIVE option. > >> > > >> > Let me know your thoughts on this. > >> > >> I don't understand the proposal. > > > > I understand it as PERMISSIVE := chmod 777 the target file of a COPY TO. > > That doesn't sound like an especially good idea. What if I want mode 770? > > Sorry for my unclear description about the proposal. "WITH PERMISSIVE" is equal to our existing behavior. That is, chmod=644 on the created files. If User don't specify "PERMISSIVE" as an option, then the chmod=600 on created files. In this way, we can restrict the other users from reading these files. Let me know if i am still bad at explaining things here. Thanks in advance. Regards, Dinesh manojadinesh.blogspot.com -- > Robert Haas > EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company >
