Re: [ADMIN] Upgrading with WALs

2008-07-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:03 -0500, Chris Bovitz wrote: > As I mentioned earlier, we are doing major upgrades to our database > servers from 8.1.3 which necessitates the use of pg_dumpall. But what > do we do with the WALs? Should we delete them? Or should we leave them > there, and the new ver

[ADMIN] Upgrading with WALs

2008-07-29 Thread Chris Bovitz
As I mentioned earlier, we are doing major upgrades to our database servers from 8.1.3 which necessitates the use of pg_dumpall. But what do we do with the WALs? Should we delete them? Or should we leave them there, and the new version of PostgreSQL will pick up where they left off? Should w

Re: [ADMIN] Privileges & roles

2008-07-29 Thread Tom Lane
Carol Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do you make a user that can only create temporary tables? Well, you grant them TEMP privilege on the database, and you revoke everything else. I suspect the key bit you're missing is to revoke public CREATE privilege on the "public" schema.

[ADMIN] Privileges & roles

2008-07-29 Thread Carol Walter
Hello, I'm running PostgreSQL 8.2.3 on Solaris 10. I'm still trying to give my users the access they want without "giving away the store". They want to be able to create temporary tables in a specified database. I created a test role and a test database. The database has two tables. I