Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:17:00 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
	Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: backup manifests
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On 2020-Mar-27, Stephen Frost wrote:

> I don't think we should just compare all permissions or ownership with
> some arbitrary idea of what we think they should be, even though if you
> use pg_basebackup in 'plain' format, you actually end up with
> differences, today, from what the source system has.  In my view, that
> should actually be fixed, to the extent possible.

I posted some thoughts about this at
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20190904201117.GA12986%40alvherre.pgsql
I didn't get time to work on that myself.

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