[Pkg-postgresql-private] Re: Bug#234017: postgresql: Please chattr +A the wal-directory

[Oliver Elphick]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:56, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Presumably this would have to be put in initdb, or do you envisage its
> being added to the postinst script?  The former would be better for
> ensuring consistency; however it would involve another change from
> upstream behaviour, which we should be reluctant to do.

On thinking a bit more about this, I believe it would violate the
principle of least surprise.  I expect to be able to use "ls -lu" to
find out when a file was last accessed, and if the directory was
chattred, it would give me misleading information and I wouldn't realise
it.

It would also have to be repeated after every table creation, and
whenever a table got up to the size limit and split; I don't think it is
feasible for the package to arrange for that.

If system administrators want to do this, they should do it themselves. 
I would favour tagging this "wontfix".

Oliver