On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 5:58 AM Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilm...@ilmari.org> wrote: > I just noticed that the new server-side base backup feature requires > superuser privileges (which is only documented in the pg_basebackup > manual, not in the streaming replication protocol specification). > > Isn't this the kind of thing the pg_write_server_files role was created > for, so that it can be delegated to a non-superuser?
That's a good idea. I didn't think of that. Would you like to propose a patch? -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com