"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Dennis Hoffman <dennis.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> What can I do? > I'd be tempted to write a script which was owned by root which > calculated the size as desired, and grant sudo rights to merlin to > execute that particular script as the user with rights. Seems like a postgres-owned script would be safer. But actually I'd suggest using contrib/dbsize rather than doing any of this. Those functions got integrated into the core eventually, but in 7.4 they're in contrib. (Ob-comment-you-do-realize-how-obsolete-7.4-is-dont-you) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
