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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Amol Inamdar <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bypassing Directory Ownership Check in PostgreSQL 16.6 with Secure z/OS NFS (AT-TLS)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:14:33 -0400
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Amol Inamdar <[email protected]> writes:
> @Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
>> If you pre-create the data directory with the appropriate permissions,
>> what keeps you from giving ownership to the correct user too?

> Our NFS server is not a regular linux based server,
> it's on zOS (Mainframes) with AT-TLS security enabled,
> hence it doesn't allow changing of ownership.

Not only is that not a fit storage substrate for Postgres,
it's pretty hard to imagine that it's a fit substrate for
anything.  "Every file on this filesystem must belong to the
same owner" is a concept that should have gone out with
floppy disks.

You need some extremely fundamental re-examination of your
design decisions.  At the moment I am content to say that
Postgres does not support this storage mechanism and we
do not intend to do so in the future.

			regards, tom lane






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