unprivileged user

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: unprivileged user
Date: 2009-12-10 01:19:32
Message-ID: 4B204CA4.2080009@dunslane.net
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The other day I returned idly to thinking about some work I did a few
years ago on creating a totally unprivileged user, i.e. one with not
even public permissions. The work I did then involved hacking the
pg_catalog, information_schema and public schemas and their contents.
Unfortunately, it doesn't survive a dump and restore, so it's really
quite fragile. But it occurred to me that this could be more easily and
robustly accomplished if we create a role attribute of NOPUBLIC or some
such.

Thoughts?

cheers

andrew

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