Re: Prevent users from executing pg_dump against tables - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Kashif Zeeshan
Subject Re: Prevent users from executing pg_dump against tables
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In response to Prevent users from executing pg_dump against tables  (RAJAMOHAN <garajamohan@gmail.com>)
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Hi RAJAMOHAN

There is not a direct way to restrict  a table not to be allowed to be backed up by pg_dump.
But you can use the RLS (ROW LEVEL SECURITY) policy to restrict access.

Regards
Kashif Zeeshan
Bitnine Global

On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 10:47 AM RAJAMOHAN <garajamohan@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,

In our production db infrastructure, we have one read_only role which has read privileges against all tables in schema A.

We are planning to grant this role to some developers for viewing the data, but also I want to limit the users from executing statements like copy or using pg_dump. Main reason being I don't want the data to be copied from the database to their local machines.

I tried by implementing triggers, but was not able to figure out a way to restrict the pg_dump and allow only select statements.

Postgresql version - 12
Ec2 based postgres database 

Is there a way to implement this? Please advise.


Thanks & Regards,
Rajamohan.J
Devops Cloud Architect

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