| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] unalias of ACL_SELECT_FOR_UPDATE |
| Date: | 2009-04-18 13:29:26 |
| Message-ID: | 49E9D5B6.9050406@enterprisedb.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> That way you could
>> grant SELECT_FOR_SHARE permission on a table to let people insert rows
>> into other tables that have a foreign key reference to it, without
>> having to grant UPDATE permission.
>
> ... but this argument for it is utter nonsense. FKs are not a
> permissions problem, because the triggers run as the table's owner.
> The only permission you need is REFERENCES:
Then I think we should leave it as it is. I don't see any plausible use
case for a separate SELECT FOR SHARE or UPDATE permission.
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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