Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:00:45PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
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>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>You can already do most of this with SET/RESET ROLE:
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>Very cool, I didn't realize that. It would still be nice if there was a
>way to do it on a per-command basis (since often you just need to run
>one command as admin/dba/what-have-you), but I suspect adding that to
>the grammar would be a real PITA. Perhapse it could be added to psql
>though...
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>
If it's one command can't you wrap it in a security definer function?
cheers
andrew