| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Adam Brightwell <adam(dot)brightwell(at)crunchydatasolutions(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Additional role attributes && superuser review |
| Date: | 2015-11-24 20:53:19 |
| Message-ID: | 20151124205319.GH4073@alvherre.pgsql |
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> Even so, in the interest of having more fine-grained permission
> controls, I've gone ahead and added a pg_switch_xlog default role.
> Note that this means that pg_switch_xlog() can be called by both
> pg_switch_xlog roles and pg_backup roles. I'd be very much against
> removing the ability to call pg_switch_xlog from the pg_backup role as
> that really is a capability which is needed by users running backups and
> it'd just add unnecessary complexity to require users setting up backup
> tools to grant two different roles to get the backup to work.
Isn't it simpler to grant pg_switch_xlog to pg_backup in the default
config?
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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