Re: User with BYPASSRLS privilege can't change password

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Wolfgang Walther <walther(at)technowledgy(dot)de>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: User with BYPASSRLS privilege can't change password
Date: 2020-11-03 19:06:50
Message-ID: 961978.1604430410@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Is the nuance that in reality a non-superuser cannot specify BypassRLS even
> if the effective value is unchanged unimportant here?

I was wondering about that. You could definitely make a case for a
weaker set of rules here. However, the superuser restriction has been
like that for 15-ish years without much complaint, so it doesn't seem
that it bothers people in practice.

regards, tom lane

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