Re: Proposed TODO: CREATE .... WITH OWNER;

Dennis,

> Another observation is that SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION postgres; and RESET
> SESSION AUTHORIZATION; would be the same when postgres is the superuser.
> By not using the name of the superuser one get the benefit that one can
> restore as another superuser (but see the part about acl's below).
<snip>
> It's also more complicated since in some cases the acl is set to NULL
> which means that it has the default priviledges. And the default
> privileges always include all privileges for the owner. So if the acl is
> NULL then the old owner looses its privileges and the new gets them. Here
> we have a different semantics based on an implementation detail that's not
> very visible to the user.
<snip>

Chris K-L came on IRC after you logged off last night. Apparently, he's
already fixed all of the above for 8.0. Since I have a "destruction test"
available, I'll see how it does.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco