Andrew Beverley wrote: > I'm setting up hot backups on my database server. As such, I'd like to set up > a > Postgres user that has access to only pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup. > > I'm unable to work out how to do this with the various GRANT options. Can > someone > point me in the right direction please? Or is there a better way to achieve > this, > rather than having a dedicated user?
If you want to be as restrictive as possible, you could create functions owned by a superuser with SECURITY DEFINER that do only these things and give execution rights only to a user that has no other privileges. Youes, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
