From: Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>
To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Cc: team-srs@catalyst.net.nz
Subject: Minimum permissions required for pg_dump as a backup user
Date: 11 Oct 2002 11:46:43 +1300
Message-ID: <1034290002.2140.494.camel@kant.mcmillan.net.nz> (raw)
Hi All,
Does anyone know what the minimum permission is required to have
database backups run as a less privileged user?
We have tried granting 'SELECT' to our backup user, but it appears that
this is insufficient as pg_dump wants to lock things while it runs.
Is there some privilege less than 'UPDATE' that would allow the backups
to operate, but otherwise allow the backup user read-only access to the
database?
Thanks,
Andrew.
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