Re: add \dpS to psql

On 2022-12-09 Fr 13:44, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 10:40:55AM -0800, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:36:03PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 09:15:03AM -0800, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>>>> The main idea behind this work is breaking out privileges into more
>>>> granular pieces. If I want to create a role that only runs VACUUM on some
>>>> tables on the weekend, why ѕhould I have to also give it the ability to
>>>> ANALYZE, REFRESH, CLUSTER, and REINDEX? IMHO we should really let the user
>>>> decide what set of privileges makes sense for their use-case. I'm unsure
>>>> the grouping all these privileges together serves much purpose besides
>>>> preserving ACL bits.
>>> Hmm. I'd like to think that we should keep a frugal mind here. More
>>> bits are now available, but it does not strike me as a good idea to
>>> force their usage more than necessary, so grouping all these no-quite
>>> DDL commands into the same bag does not sound that bad to me.
>> Okay, it seems I am outnumbered. I will work on updating the patch to add
>> an ACL_MAINTAIN bit and a pg_maintain_all_tables predefined role.
> Any thoughts on $SUBJECT?

Yeah, the discussion got way off into the weeds here. I think the
original proposal seems reasonable. Please add it to the next CF if you
haven't already.

cheers

andrew

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