Re: Streaming replication as a separate permissions

On 12/23/10 7:49 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I haven't looked at the patch yet, but I think we should continue to
> allow superuser-ness to be *sufficient* for replication - i.e.
> superusers will automatically have the replication privilege just as
> they do any other - and merely allow this as an option for when you
> want to avoid doing it that way.

Yes.  Currently I already create a separate "replicator" superuser just
so that I can simply track which connections belong to replication.  It
would be great if it could make the "replicator" user less than a superuser.

If we still make it possible for "postgres" to replicate, then we don't
add any complexity to the simplest setup.

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