Re: user privilages for executing pg_autovacuum? - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:39:24PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?iso-8859-2?Q?Zlatko_Mati=E6?= <zlatko.matic1@sb.t-com.hr> writes:
> > That's the reason why I ask. If a user that executes pg_autovacuum must be
> > owner of tables or a superuser, that it is a security problem to pass
> > password as plain text...
> > How peple solve this problem ?
>
> Put the password in a ~/.pgpass file belonging to the user that runs the
> autovacuum task.

Or you can run pg_autovacuum on the server itself and allow ident
authentication for unix sockets (assuming you're on unix/linux).
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