Allow group access on PGDATA

Allow the cluster to be optionally init'd with read access for the
group.

This means a relatively non-privileged user can perform a backup of the
cluster without requiring write privileges, which enhances security.

The mode of PGDATA is used to determine whether group permissions are
enabled for directory and file creates.  This method was chosen as it's
simple and works well for the various utilities that write into PGDATA.

Changing the mode of PGDATA manually will not automatically change the
mode of all the files contained therein.  If the user would like to
enable group access on an existing cluster then changing the mode of all
the existing files will be required.  Note that pg_upgrade will
automatically change the mode of all migrated files if the new cluster
is init'd with the -g option.

Tests are included for the backend and all the utilities which operate
on the PG data directory to ensure that the correct mode is set based on
the data directory permissions.

Author: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, with discussion amongst many others.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad346fe6-b23e-59f1-ecb7-0e08390ad629%40pgmasters.net

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index b5ad8419684..e167ee8fcbe 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ extern PGDLLIMPORT bool IsBinaryUpgrade;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT bool ExitOnAnyError;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT char *DataDir;
+extern PGDLLIMPORT int data_directory_mode;
 
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int NBuffers;
 extern PGDLLIMPORT int MaxBackends;
@@ -323,6 +324,7 @@ extern void SetSessionAuthorization(Oid userid, bool is_superuser);
 extern Oid	GetCurrentRoleId(void);
 extern void SetCurrentRoleId(Oid roleid, bool is_superuser);
 
+extern void checkDataDir(void);
 extern void SetDataDir(const char *dir);
 extern void ChangeToDataDir(void);