[Spacewalk-list] Why the PostgreSQL superuser permissions required?

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 11:53:56AM +0400, new_user wrote:
> Hallo!
> The intallation manual contains info about Postgresql server setup:
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/PostgreSQLServerSetup
> Follow this instruction user for the spacewalk DB shoul be superuser
> ('createuser -P -sDR spaceuser')
> 
> Tell me please - what is the reason to use superuser permissions? What
> privillegies the database user should have?

I believe the reason is for the user to be able to create the plpgsql
language.

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat