Re: Log file permissions?

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

Glyn Astill wrote:

> I'm not piping it to a file, postgres is managing the logs. Is there
> any way to manage the permissions, or do I just need to create a
> script to change the permissions?

I think you should be able to chmod the files after they have been
created.  The postmaster changes its umask to 0077, so no file is
group-readable.  I don't think is configurable either.

Perhaps we should add a log_file_group option, to which we would chgrp()
the log files.

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