Re: Server-side base backup: why superuser, not pg_write_server_files?

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-02-03T17:26:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2/2/22 17:52, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> The Windows animals don't like this:
>> pg_basebackup: error: connection to server at "127.0.0.1", port 59539 failed: FATAL:  SSPI authentication failed for user "backupuser"
>> Not sure whether we have a standard method to get around that.
> Ah, right, we do.  Looks like adding something like
>
> auth_extra => [ '--create-role', 'backupuser' ]
>
> to the $node->init call would do it, or you could mess with
> invoking pg_regress --config-auth directly.
>
> 			



I've fixed this using the auth_extra method, which avoids a reload.


cheers


andrew


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Commits

  1. Fix server crash bug in 'server' backup target.

  2. Adjust server-side backup to depend on pg_write_server_files.