From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, "Dennis Hoffman" <dennis.hoffman@seagate.com>
Subject: Re: postgresql question
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:03:41 -0500
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> Dennis Hoffman <dennis.hoffman@seagate.com> wrote:
>> What can I do?
> I'd be tempted to write a script which was owned by root which
> calculated the size as desired, and grant sudo rights to merlin to
> execute that particular script as the user with rights.
Seems like a postgres-owned script would be safer. But actually
I'd suggest using contrib/dbsize rather than doing any of this.
Those functions got integrated into the core eventually, but in
7.4 they're in contrib.
(Ob-comment-you-do-realize-how-obsolete-7.4-is-dont-you)
regards, tom lane
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