Greetings, * Robins Tharakan (thara...@gmail.com) wrote: > I would like to work on a patch to accommodate restricted environments > (such as AWS RDS Postgres) which don't allow pg_authid access since their > definition of Superuser is just a regular user with extra permissions. > > Would you consider a patch to add a flag to work around this restriction, > Or, do you prefer that this be maintained outside core? > > I could add a flag such as --avoid-pgauthid (am open to options) that skips > pg_authid and uses pg_user (but essentially resets all User passwords). > Mostly this is better than not being able to get the dump at all.
If anything, it should use pg_roles, not pg_user. I don't really like the "--avoid-pgauthid" option, but "--no-passwords" would probably work. In general, this seems like a reasonable thing to add support for. Thanks! Stephen
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