It comes back...
role "joetheplumber" does not exist
The user is a sys uid on linux.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 1:26 PM
To: Gauthier, Dave
Cc: pgsql-general
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] how to allow a sysid to be a superuser?
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Gauthier, Dave <dave.gauthier@intel.com> wrote:
> PG 8.3.4 on Linux.
>
> A DB was created with a privileged account which has limited access. I want
> a specific user (sysuid) to have "all" provs on this DB. In fact, I want
> this user to have "all" on all the dbs served by the PG instance. Is there
> a way to do this such that when psql is invoked in a session of that user,
> he/she automatically has "all" (wothoug havng to enter "-user theuid")?
Make them a superuser. first log into psql as a superuser and issue
this command:
alter user username superuser;
tada! they're now large and in charge of the pgsql instance and all
its databases.