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From: Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, Bernt Drange <badrange@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Regaining superuser access
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:35:30 +0000 (GMT)
Message-ID: <497334.45125.qm@web25803.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <355ba921-203b-4380-bee4-67209316be62@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>


> The server only has one superuser, and for some reason he
> decided to
> remove the logon privilege on this user in PgAdmin III. So
> now he has
> lost superuser access to the database server.
> 
> Is there some way to override this setting? Or some way to
> trick
> PostgreSQL into creating a new superuser without superuser
> access?

Start it up in single user mode?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/app-postgres.html


      



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