Re: Removing pg_pltemplate and creating "trustable" extensions

Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
>> In the meantime, though, this idea as stated doesn't do anything except
>> let a DB owner grant install privileges to someone else. I'm not even
>> convinced that we want that, or that anyone needs it (I can recall zero
>> such requests related to PLs in the past). And for sure it does not
>> belong in a minimal implementation of this feature.

> Yes, that's what this approach would do. I suppose an alternative would
> be to lump it in with "CREATE" rights on the DB, but I've advocated and
> will continue to advocate for splitting up of such broad rights.
> DB-level CREATE rights currently cover both schemas and publications,
> for example, even though the two have rather little to do with each
> other.

The patch as I'm proposing it has nothing to do with "CREATE" rights.
You're attacking something different from what I actually want to do.

regards, tom lane