Re: Creating a user for pg_start_backup - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: Creating a user for pg_start_backup
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Msg-id 55AE06D1.80001@hogranch.com
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In response to Re: Creating a user for pg_start_backup  (Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>)
Responses Re: Creating a user for pg_start_backup  (Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>)
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On 7/21/2015 1:31 AM, Andrew Beverley wrote:
> I had to specify a database name when connecting:
>
>      psql -U backup -c "select pg_start_backup('Daily backup')" -d postgres

psql defaults to the current user for both the database name and user
name.   I probably would have run that psql command as the system
postgres user and not specified any -U or -d ...



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