Re: Something I don't understand with the use of schemas

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 09:18:32AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> >However there is an effort to get rid of root in some Unix lands,
> >separating its responsabilities with more granularity.  Maybe there
> >could be an effort, not to hand-hold the true superusers, but to
> >delegate some of its responsabilities to other users.
> >  
> Like sudo?

I think it would be a huge benefit to have something equivalent to sudo
for psql (though maybe it could be generalized more). Having to change
to a different connection/authorization anytime you need to do something
requiring superuser is a real pita, and encourages things like making
yourself a superuser.

In the case of shell commands like createdb, sudo is indeed a pretty
viable alternative; you just need to do something like sudo -u
postgres command. But there's no equivalent for psql; if you sudo -u
postgres psql it's the equivalent of su - root (though at least you
wouldn't need to know the password to the postgres account).

I'd love to see something like SUDO ALTER USER ... SUDO REINDEX ... etc.
That would make it easy to do 'normal' work with a non-superuser
account.
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