Re: Streaming replication as a separate permissions

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:34, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 10:36 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> > Is backup part of this new privilege, or not?
>>
>> The "integrated base backup", once we have that, that's based on the
>> walsender protocol? yes.
>> pg_dump style backups? No.
>
> Where does pg_start_backup()/stop fit?

Good question :)

Given that the integrated-base-backup would call it for you, that one
would definitely get it automatically.

Given that the latest discissions seem to have most people wanting the
replication role *not* to be allowed to log in and run general SQL, we
should not drive the start/stop backup permissions from that
privilege.

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