On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:15 PM, dinesh kumar <dineshkuma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:19 PM, dinesh kumar <dineshkuma...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> There might be some benefit in allowing the user to choose the
>> permissions, but (1) I doubt we want to change the default behavior
>> and (2) providing only two options doesn't seem flexible enough.
>>
>
> Thanks for your inputs Robert.
>
> 1) IMO, we will keep the exiting behavior as it is.
>
> 2) As the actual proposal talks about the permissions of group/others. So,
> we can add few options as below to the WITH clause
>
> COPY
> ..
> ..
> WITH
> [
> NO
> (READ,WRITE)
> PERMISSION TO
> (GROUP,OTHERS)
> ]

If we're going to do anything here, it should use COPY's
extensible-options syntax, I think.

-- 
Robert Haas
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