Re: requests / suggestions to help with backups

On 2/16/07, Lou Duchez <lou(at)paprikash(dot)com> 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