* Michael Paquier (michael.paqu...@gmail.com) wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Andrew Beverley a...@andybev.com wrote:
Dear all,
I'm setting up hot backups on my database server. As such, I'd like to set
up a
Postgres user that has access to only pg_start_backup and
On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 03:00 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
On 7/21/2015 1:51 AM, Andrew Beverley wrote:
Thanks John. The backup script is running as root, so presumably I'd have
to
use
sudo? Or should I run a separate cron job as postgres to do the above, and
run
the
backup script
On 7/21/2015 8:36 AM, Andrew Beverley wrote:
Sorry to be dragging this off-topic, but what's the reason for using su instead
of
sudo?
sudo is for non root users, it ends up running the su command. normally
root doesn't use sudo at all, look at all the init.d scripts that run
daemons as
On 7/21/2015 1:51 AM, Andrew Beverley wrote:
Thanks John. The backup script is running as root, so presumably I'd have to use
sudo? Or should I run a separate cron job as postgres to do the above, and run
the
backup script separately?
those are both possibilities. I'd either use su (not
Dear all,
I'm setting up hot backups on my database server. As such, I'd like to set up a
Postgres user that has access to only pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup.
I'm unable to work out how to do this with the various GRANT options. Can
someone
point me in the right direction please? Or is
On 7/21/2015 1:31 AM, Andrew Beverley wrote:
I had to specify a database name when connecting:
psql -U backup -c select pg_start_backup('Daily backup') -d postgres
psql defaults to the current user for both the database name and user
name. I probably would have run that psql command
On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 01:46 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
On 7/21/2015 1:31 AM, Andrew Beverley wrote:
I had to specify a database name when connecting:
psql -U backup -c select pg_start_backup('Daily backup') -d postgres
psql defaults to the current user for both the database name
Andrew Beverley wrote:
I'm setting up hot backups on my database server. As such, I'd like to set up
a
Postgres user that has access to only pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup.
I'm unable to work out how to do this with the various GRANT options. Can
someone
point me in the right
