Yes, you can create a role that is a superuser that should be able to do internal work: CREATE ROLE myuser; ALTER ROLE myuser WITH SUPERUSER INHERIT CREATEROLE CREATEDB LOGIN PASSWORD 'mypassword' VALID UNTIL 'infinity'; If you are talking about the operating system account named postgres, then this is a different question. -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Maria L. Wilson Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 2:15 PM To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: postgres database user account Hoping someone out there can answer this general question(s).... I am having to justify having access to the "postgres" database user account to do DBA type work..... Is there any specific items that require the postgres database user account to run? Can any general user (with superuser permission) basically do what this postgres account does? thanks, Maria Wilson Nasa/Langley Research Center Hampton, Virginia 23681 -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
