Re: [GENERAL] Best practice non privilege postgres-user

2012-08-20 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:53:05 -0400 Moshe Jacobson wrote: > I do not know of anything that can't be done from within psql. > We use non-privileged user roles in postgres for day-to-day > operations. When I need to modify the schema, I become postgres (you > can do \c - postgres) and do what I need

Re: [GENERAL] Best practice non privilege postgres-user

2012-08-17 Thread Albe Laurenz
Frank Lanitz wrote: > I'm looking for some kind of best practice for a non-privilege postgres > user. As not all operations can be done within psql you might need > access to postgres- on command line from time to time. Currently this is > done via root-privvileges and >su - postgres< directly on d

Re: [GENERAL] Best practice non privilege postgres-user

2012-08-17 Thread Moshe Jacobson
I do not know of anything that can't be done from within psql. We use non-privileged user roles in postgres for day-to-day operations. When I need to modify the schema, I become postgres (you can do \c - postgres) and do what I need to do, then revert back to my regular user. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012

[GENERAL] Best practice non privilege postgres-user

2012-08-17 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hi folks, I'm looking for some kind of best practice for a non-privilege postgres user. As not all operations can be done within psql you might need access to postgres- on command line from time to time. Currently this is done via root-privvileges and »su - postgres« directly on database server -