On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently superuser privilege is required when the standby connects
> to the primary. But there is the complaint that we should add new
> privilege for replication and use it instead of superuser because
> current approach is not good for security (*1). This has been listed
> as one of TODO items of SR.
>
> This TODO item really needs to be addressed for 9.0? Frankly I'm not
> familiar with that area, so I've not work on it at all yet, but I'm
> going to create the patch if many people want it for 9.0. What is
> your opinion?
>
> (*1)
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-01/msg01536.php
In my opinion, it is a 9.1 item.
...Robert