Re: pg_rewind: ERROR: could not fetch remote file "global/pg_control": ERROR: permission denied

On 2023-Sep-26, Zhaoxun Yan wrote:

> Actually I have grant function pg_read_binary_file's execution right to the
> user rep, and here are the setup for this role:
>
> CREATE EXTENSION repmgr;
> GRANT pg_checkpoint TO rep;
> GRANT pg_read_all_stats TO rep;
> GRANT EXECUTE ON function pg_catalog.pg_ls_dir(text, boolean, boolean) TO rep;
> GRANT EXECUTE ON function pg_catalog.pg_stat_file(text, boolean) TO rep;
> GRANT EXECUTE ON function pg_catalog.pg_read_binary_file(text) TO rep;
> GRANT EXECUTE ON function pg_catalog.pg_read_binary_file(text, bigint,
> bigint, boolean

Maybe you did this in the wrong database? Keep in mind that function
privileges are per database.

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