Ubuntu
postgresql package

forcibly changes owner, group and permissions on conf files on every upgrade

Bug #12497 reported by James Troup on 2005-02-03

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	postgresql (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Martin Pitt

Bug Description

The postgresql postinst blithely resets the owner, group and permissions of
/etc/postgresql/ files on every upgrade; please don't do this,
dpkg-statoverride'd changes made by the system administrator should be respected.

Revision history for this message

Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2005-02-04:

This has already been fixed in 7.4.6-6. Now the conffiles are only touched on a
new installation from scratch (necessary because they are created in this step)
and during major upgrades (hard to avoid in this case).

Revision history for this message

Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2005-02-04:

(In reply to comment #1)
> This has already been fixed in 7.4.6-6. Now the conffiles are only touched on a
> new installation from scratch (necessary because they are created in this step)
> and during major upgrades (hard to avoid in this case).

As a side note, there will not be any automatic database format upgrades in the
future any more. The future PostgreSQL structure will allow to install several
major versions in parallel and upgrade clusters independently from package
upgrades. Thus this last occurrence of conffile touching will not happen any
more, too.

See http://people.debian.org/~mpitt/postgresql-ng.html for details.