On Thursday 02 July 2009 02:45:24 John R Pierce wrote: > ajmcello wrote: > > The only downside with adding o to tar that I can see is if it isn't > > supported by a non-GNU version of tar. > > On solaris 9 and 10 at least, tar -o means set ownership of extracted > files to the runner and not the uid in the tar, which I assume is what > we want here. > > Note, this is on Solaris /usr/bin/tar > > I'd suggest that if this works on... > > A) solaris 8+ > B) hp-ux > C) AIX 5.x+ > D) Free/Net/OpenBSD > > it would be safe for 'unix' systems, as there really aren't many other > flavors of 'unix' in common use anymore.
But it doesn't, hence this thread. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
