Re: dropdb ; createdb equivalent without createdb permission? - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 02:50:02PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> A SECURITY DEFINER function (living in some other database of course)
> could accomplish this without going outside Postgres.

Good point.  I was originally imagining a sort of scripted QA
environment, and sudo for that sort of thing is pretty useful.  But
for other applications, it's probably a lousy choice.

A

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