Re: TODO Item: ACL_CONNECT

From: Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: TODO Item: ACL_CONNECT
Date: 2006-04-24 14:05:36
Message-ID: 1145887536.12809.58.camel@voyager.truesoftware.net
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> Ok, good. This is what people was aiming for initially, I hope. What
> do people think, particularly those who wanted to manage pg_hba.conf via
> SQL commands?

I guess for this one more people have to play with the new
functionality.

> Without looking at the surrounding code, I'm a bit wary of the fact that
> in ReverifyMyDatabase, pg_database_aclcheck is called with GetUserId()
> but the error message is emitted with the user_name that was passed as
> parameter instead. The inconsistency could prove painful in the future;
> maybe it's OK, but if it is, you should declare it in the surrounding
> comments.

I have added proper comment for that.

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I guess the next step is to check for the last ACL_CONNECT privilege as
discussed below.

> At this moment the owner of the database CAN REVOKE himself form the
> ACL_OBJECT_DATABASE. If the implementation above is acceptable then I
> can work on this one :)

Hmm, what do you want to do about it? ISTM the owner should be able to
revoke the privilege from himself ... (Maybe we could raise a WARNING
whenever anyone revokes the last CONNECT privilege to a database, so
that he can GRANT it to somebody before disconnecting.)

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