Re: new createuser option for replication role

From: Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: new createuser option for replication role
Date: 2011-09-23 13:48:39
Message-ID: CAF6yO=0YkkNsRZAzVWzkpELUjbUrLRD6pw=ZfwGdJNqJ8yWUTA@mail.gmail.com
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2011/9/23 Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> 2011/9/23 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Agreed. Attached is the updated version of the patch. It adds two options
>>> --replication and --no-replication. If neither specified, neither REPLICATION
>>> nor NOREPLICATION is specified in CREATE ROLE, i.e., in this case,
>>> replication privilege is granted to only superuser.
>>
>> Committed.  Do we need to make any changes in interactive mode, when
>> we prompt?  In theory this could be either wanted or not wanted for
>> either superusers or non-superusers, but I'm not really sure it's
>> worth it, and I certainly don't want the command to go into
>> interactive mode just because neither --replication nor
>> --no-replication was specified.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I believe the intereactive mode is useless.
>
> There is still an issue with the patch for the documentation: a
> superuser, even with NOREPLICATION is allowed to perform
> pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup().

noise, sorry
I've just read the commited patch which fixed that.

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