Re: has_language_privilege returns incorrect answer for non-superuser

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 06:01:00PM -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 07/12/2012 02:53 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> >> As long as we're spending time on this, I'd propose getting rid of
> >> lanplistrusted, at least for access checking. Instead, just don't
> >> install USAGE privileges by default for those languages.
> >
> > There's definitely something to that idea --- certainly lanpltrusted
> > dates from before we had a robust object-permissions system, and looks
> > like a bit of a wart now that we do have one.
> >
> > I guess we could redefine the default privileges for languages as "none"
> > and then have the TRUSTED keyword mean to install public usage
> > privilege. Or maybe it would be safer for upgrade purposes if we kept
> > the default interpretation as-is and did an automatic REVOKE when
> > TRUSTED wasn't specified.
>
> +1
>
> I'll take a look at the latter option sometime in the next few weeks and
> submit for the next commitfest.

Any news on this?

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