On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> That would solve the consistency problem, yes. Would we need a special
>>> kind of permission for this? I would say superuser/database owner only?
>
>> Yeah, I doubt we would need a whole new permission for it, but it
>> would certainly have to be disallowed for ordinary users.
>
> Giving up the ability to run pg_dump as a non-superuser would be
> pretty annoying, so this would have to be an optional feature if we
> restrict it that way.

Yeah, for sure.

-- 
Robert Haas
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