On 2/16/07, Lou Duchez <lou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Like everyone else, I use pg_dump for backup purposes; I have a cron job that runs a pg_dump whose output is then FTP'd elsewhere. Two things that would make my life easier: 1) "grant select on database ..." or, hypothetically, "grant select on cluster". The goal would be to create a read-only PostgreSQL user, one who can read the contents of an entire database (or even the entire cluster) but make no changes. Currently, to do my cron job, I have to specify a "trusted" user, otherwise PostgreSQL will ask for a password;
A .pgpass file can fix this... I don't know if that gets you any closer to your objective. - Ian
