On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:27:33PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:00:45PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > > >>"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > >>>I'd love to see something like SUDO ALTER USER ... SUDO REINDEX ... etc. > >>>That would make it easy to do 'normal' work with a non-superuser > >>>account. > >>> > >>> > >>You can already do most of this with SET/RESET ROLE: > >> > >> > > > >Very cool, I didn't realize that. It would still be nice if there was a > >way to do it on a per-command basis (since often you just need to run > >one command as admin/dba/what-have-you), but I suspect adding that to > >the grammar would be a real PITA. Perhapse it could be added to psql > >though... > > If it's one command can't you wrap it in a security definer function?
Sure, if it's a command you'll be using over and over. Which I guess some are, but it's still a pain. Maybe what I'm asking for will only make sense to people who use sudo... -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
