Re: Something I don't understand with the use of schemas

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Guillaume LELARGE <guillaume(dot)lelarge(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Something I don't understand with the use of schemas
Date: 2005-12-12 22:12:12
Message-ID: 20051212221212.GG54639@pervasive.com
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:00:45PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> writes:
> > I'd love to see something like SUDO ALTER USER ... SUDO REINDEX ... etc.
> > That would make it easy to do 'normal' work with a non-superuser
> > account.
>
> You can already do most of this with SET/RESET ROLE:

Very cool, I didn't realize that. It would still be nice if there was a
way to do it on a per-command basis (since often you just need to run
one command as admin/dba/what-have-you), but I suspect adding that to
the grammar would be a real PITA. Perhapse it could be added to psql
though...
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