From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter M. Van Buren <petervanburen@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Can multiple users own and maintain a database?
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:03:58 -0400
Message-ID: <2833.1236715438@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e20d28e20903101250r5fe7d99emf26ec20622b1546b@mail.gmail.com>
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"Peter M. Van Buren" <petervanburen@gmail.com> writes:
> I have a group of users who are running a maintenance-intensive database.
> This database needs to be vacuumed and dumped as often as every couple of
> hours. The database owner has asked me to make multiple users all be
> co-owners of the database. He wants all of these users to be able to vacuum
> and dump the database when needed. The database owner does not want to have
> a db_owner account or a db_owner role - he'd like all of the users to be
> able to sign in as themselves and perform maintenance.
As far as vacuuming goes, in recent releases it should work to make all
the users members of a group role that owns the DB. Dump I'm not so
sure about --- do you really want them all to be able to read each
others' tables? If so, try giving the group role at least read
permission on each table, too.
Perhaps more to the point, why are you doing these things manually at all?
Surely dumps should be automated through a cron script or some such.
regards, tom lane
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