Revert "Prevent running pg_basebackup as root"

This reverts commit 7bae0ad, as this is not ideal with the tar format,
and we may want to explore more options like what is done by tar with
some equivalents of --owner and --group, but for pg_basebackup.

Per complaints from Magnus Hagander and Stephen Frost.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200205172259.GW3195@tamriel.snowman.net
This commit is contained in:
Michael Paquier 2020-02-07 10:51:17 +09:00
parent 414c2fd1e1
commit dcddc3f813

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@ -2090,22 +2090,6 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
}
}
/*
* Don't allow pg_basebackup to be run as root, to avoid creating files in
* the data directory with ownership rights incompatible with the
* postmaster.
*/
#ifndef WIN32
if (geteuid() == 0) /* 0 is root's uid */
{
pg_log_error("cannot be run as root");
fprintf(stderr,
_("Please log in (using, e.g., \"su\") as the (unprivileged) user that will\n"
"own the server process.\n"));
exit(1);
}
#endif
atexit(cleanup_directories_atexit);
while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "CD:F:r:RS:T:X:l:nNzZ:d:c:h:p:U:s:wWkvP",