Mr. Dan wrote: > Pgadmin is amazing. You can log on with a user account that's been > authenticated through Linux PAM and then run a command like pg_dump > or createdb that you wouldn't have access to run on the linux command > line as long as postgres approves that access. PgAdmin doesn't have any special powers. If you can log in via pgAdmin, you can also run pg_dump. If you can't get superuser privileges for pg_dump, you also can't get them in pgAdmin. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/