On Thursday 02 July 2009 09:56:35 Peter Eisentraut wrote: > 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.
I meant rather, hence the other thread, where we had to revert this. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
