Re: [GENERAL] requests / suggestions to help with backups

2007-02-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 22:39:13 -0500, Lou Duchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) grant select on database ... or, hypothetically, grant select on cluster. The goal would be to create a read-only PostgreSQL user, one who can read the contents of an entire database (or even the entire

Re: [GENERAL] requests / suggestions to help with backups

2007-02-16 Thread Lou Duchez
Lou Duchez wrote: Like everyone else, I use pg_dump for backup purposes; I have a cron job that runs a pg_dump whose output is then FTP'd elsewhere. Two things that would make my life easier: 1) grant select on database ... or, hypothetically, grant select on cluster. The goal would be to

Re: [GENERAL] requests / suggestions to help with backups

2007-02-16 Thread Erik Jones
Lou Duchez wrote: Lou Duchez wrote: Like everyone else, I use pg_dump for backup purposes; I have a cron job that runs a pg_dump whose output is then FTP'd elsewhere. Two things that would make my life easier: 1) grant select on database ... or, hypothetically, grant select on cluster.

Re: [GENERAL] requests / suggestions to help with backups

2007-02-16 Thread Lou Duchez
Certainly, I've tried grant select on database mydatabase to user myuser; it doesn't work, because select is not a database-level privilege. Sorry, you're right on that one. I misread it. However, it shouldn't be too hard to write a script, either in a procedural language or higher

Re: [GENERAL] requests / suggestions to help with backups

2007-02-16 Thread Ian Harding
On 2/16/07, Lou Duchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like everyone else, I use pg_dump for backup purposes; I have a cron job that runs a pg_dump whose output is then FTP'd elsewhere. Two things that would make my life easier: 1) grant select on database ... or, hypothetically, grant select on

[GENERAL] requests / suggestions to help with backups

2007-02-15 Thread Lou Duchez
Like everyone else, I use pg_dump for backup purposes; I have a cron job that runs a pg_dump whose output is then FTP'd elsewhere. Two things that would make my life easier: 1) grant select on database ... or, hypothetically, grant select on cluster. The goal would be to create a read-only

Re: [GENERAL] requests / suggestions to help with backups

2007-02-15 Thread Erik Jones
Lou Duchez wrote: Like everyone else, I use pg_dump for backup purposes; I have a cron job that runs a pg_dump whose output is then FTP'd elsewhere. Two things that would make my life easier: 1) grant select on database ... or, hypothetically, grant select on cluster. The goal would be to

Re: [GENERAL] requests / suggestions to help with backups

2007-02-15 Thread Tom Lane
Erik Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lou Duchez wrote: 2) pg_dumpall -E. If I could specify a single encoding for all my database dumps, I could use pg_dumpall. I guess you missed this: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-grant.html Also, on the second point, you can do