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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Using role priviledges for pg_dump
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Msg-id 18453.1210992645@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Using role priviledges for pg_dump  (Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>)
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Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> writes:
> Given:

> CREATE ROLE joe WITH LOGIN;
> CREATE ROLE dumpable;
> ALTER GROUP dumpable ADD USER joe;

> If I have a database called db1 to which the role dumpable has enough
> permissions to do a full pg_dump, but he user joe does not, how can
> joe do a pg_dump?  Is it possible?

Uh, given the setup you show it seems like joe should have enough
privileges.  Can you give a concrete example of it going wrong?

            regards, tom lane

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