From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Cc: team-srs@catalyst.net.nz
Subject: Re: Minimum permissions required for pg_dump as a backup user
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:16:59 -0400
Message-ID: <2183.1034309819@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1034290002.2140.494.camel@kant.mcmillan.net.nz>
References: <1034290002.2140.494.camel@kant.mcmillan.net.nz>
Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz> writes:
> Does anyone know what the minimum permission is required to have
> database backups run as a less privileged user?
Backups should be run as the superuser. Don't waste your time trying
to kluge up something else.
regards, tom lane
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