On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 5:58 AM Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
<ilmari@ilmari.org> wrote:
> I just noticed that the new server-side base backup feature requires
> superuser privileges (which is only documented in the pg_basebackup
> manual, not in the streaming replication protocol specification).
>
> Isn't this the kind of thing the pg_write_server_files role was created
> for, so that it can be delegated to a non-superuser?
That's a good idea. I didn't think of that. Would you like to propose a patch?
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