Re: inconsistent owners in newly created databases?

Fabien COELHO wrote:

>Dear Thomas,
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>>* create the database with the new owner specified.
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>>-- As a superuser in the newly created database
>>update pg_am set amowner = {userid}
>>update pg_class set relowner = {userid}
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>You don't want to update ownership of tables in system schemas.
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AFAICS, any changes they make are localized to their database not the
whole database system. In other words, they can change add drop types,
procs, tables as if they were a superuser but only in their database.
A normal account (the db owner in this case) still cannot select against
pg_shadow or add users (without createdb privilege).

>>update pg_conversion set conowner = {userid}
>>update pg_namespace set nspowner = {userid}
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>As for SCHEMAs, I would not do that for system schemas
>(pg_%, information_schema)...
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It doesn't seem any different than running as the superuser and changing
those. Again, I think it would be restricted to someone frying their
own database, but not the whole system.

>>update pg_opclass set opcowner = {userid}
>>update pg_operator set oprowner = {userid}
>>update pg_proc set proowner = {userid}
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>I'm not sure system functions owner should be change. Also, call handlers
>for languages should not change owner.
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Without this the db owner cannot drop types that may have been copied
from the template.

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>>update pg_type set typowner = {userid}
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>>Are there any security problems that this would cause? Perhaps these
>>should be done by the system automatically.
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>I think that something along the line you describe should be done by the
>system. However database creation does not actually connect to the new
>database, the template base directory is simply copied with a "cp -r".
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>It is unclear to me at the time when these updates should be performed.
>After the createdb? Deferred to the first connection to the database?
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It seems the logical place is for the createdb routine to connect to the
new database and make the ownership changes.