On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Tim Uckun <timuckun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I suspect you are expecting that the map will cause root to be >> logged in as postgres without asking for that. It won't. >> What it will do is allow "psql -U postgres" and similar to work. > > That's exactly what I am looking to do. In my case I have a script > that runs as root. I want to log in as postgres user from that script > but the script is running as root. > > The way I have it set up doesn't permit that. I want to know what I > need to do in order to make that happen. then say you're postgres in the script with the -U (if you're using psql) AS ROOT: psql -U postgres -h remote_db dbname Note that ident doesn't work so well between machines, so you might want to look at .pgpass -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
