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From kjonca@o2.pl (Kamil Jońca)
Subject database role for backups?
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Msg-id 87sj1zldjk.fsf@alfa.kjonca
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Responses Re: database role for backups?  (Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>)
Re: database role for backups?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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I tried to create make backup my postrgresql cluster with amanda.
And I had to create database superuser.

I tried to create no-superuser role with only "replication" privillege,
but after run backup I got:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
2013-05-06 13:33:02 CEST ERROR:  must be superuser to switch transaction log files
2013-05-06 13:33:02 CEST STATEMENT:  SELECT file_name from pg_xlogfile_name_offset(pg_switch_xlog())
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So my question is:
Can I establish postgresql role which is _not_ superuser and can execute
above statement?
KJ

PS. does news.postgresql.org work? I got 'unknown host'


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