On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 8:03 PM, David G. Johnston <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday, April 22, 2017, chiru r <chir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thank you Adrian. >> >> It seems the code is allowing only who has Superuser/Replication role >> directly. >> >> Is there any possibility in future releases they allow both case A & B >> Users able to use pg_basebackup. >> > > It does not seem wise to introduce inheritance of such powerful capabilities > when for many years now we have not done so. It seems like reality could be > better documented but the present behavior should stay. I also find the > original choice to be quite sane regardless. > > David J.
I would point out that these roles are already inheritable elsewhere, so it's not like adding it to the connection coming from another machine for basebackup is somehow a new thing really, just making it act the same in both places. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
