On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 11:18 +0200, Zlatko Matic wrote: > How to automate backup, so that Postgres automatically backups, for example, > once in a week ? > The same question about vacuum ? > > Concerning backup, how to prevent that someone makes a copy (for example > pg_dumpall) of a database, pg_dumpall is no special case. It just runs some SQL queries. Your users are subject to the normal permission checking. > then installs new instance of Postgres, create > the same user acount that was the original owner and then restore the > database. In that case all restrictions would be overriden, right ? No, because pg_dumpall doesn't override any restriction. Of course, if someone puts his hands on _your_ backups (made with full permissions), he can access everything, unless you encrypted it. .TM. -- ____/ ____/ / / / / Marco Colombo ___/ ___ / / Technical Manager / / / ESI s.r.l. _____/ _____/ _/ Colombo@xxxxxx ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly