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

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "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 22:27:33
Message-ID: 439DF955.8050101@dunslane.net
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:

>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...
>
>

If it's one command can't you wrap it in a security definer function?

cheers

andrew

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