Re: Superowners

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Superowners
Date: 2017-01-30 14:42:47
Message-ID: 20170130144247.GB22409@fetter.org
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 05:48:46PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 1/26/17 1:25 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > That should include the ability to dump all objects, yet without
> > any security details. And it should allow someone to setup logical
> > replication easily, including both trigger based and new logical
> > replication. And GRANT ON ALL should work.
>
> This basically sounds like a GRANT $privilege ON ALL $objecttype TO
> $user. So you could have a user that can read everything, for
> example.

This would still be tremendously useful.

So would a cogent, user-facing explanation of DCL in one obvious spot,
which I guess I've signed up to do now that I'm complaining about its
lack.

Best,
David.
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