Re: how to allow a sysid to be a superuser?

It comes back...

role "joetheplumber" does not exist

The user is a sys uid on linux.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 1:26 PM
To: Gauthier, Dave
Cc: pgsql-general
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] how to allow a sysid to be a superuser?

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Gauthier, Dave <dave(dot)gauthier(at)intel(dot)com> wrote:
> PG 8.3.4 on Linux.
>
> A DB was created with a privileged account which has limited access.  I want
> a specific user (sysuid) to have "all" provs on this DB.  In fact, I want
> this user to have "all"  on all the dbs served by the PG instance.  Is there
> a way to do this such that when psql is invoked in a session of that user,
> he/she automatically has "all" (wothoug havng to enter "-user theuid")?

Make them a superuser. first log into psql as a superuser and issue
this command:

alter user username superuser;

tada! they're now large and in charge of the pgsql instance and all
its databases.