Mr. Dan wrote:
> Pgadmin is amazing. You can log on with a user account that's been
> authenticated through Linux PAM and then run a command like pg_dump
> or createdb that you wouldn't have access to run on the linux command
> line as long as postgres approves that access.
PgAdmin doesn't have any special powers. If you can log in via pgAdmin,
you can also run pg_dump. If you can't get superuser privileges for
pg_dump, you also can't get them in pgAdmin.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
