Re: heads up -- subtle change of behavior of new initdb

Tom Lane wrote:

>Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
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>>I'm not suggesting making that the default setup, just loosening the
>>paranoia check so that if an admin sets the directory to be group
>>readable the database doesn't refuse to start up.
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>In previous discussions of this point, paranoia was considered desirable.
>I don't think the situation has changed.
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Would it be worth having a command line option to relax the paranoia a
bit, leaving the current paranoia setting as the default? I guess it
would have to be on the command line because IIRC this is checked before
we ever look at the config file.

cheers

andrew