Re: Non-superuser subscription owners

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Non-superuser subscription owners
Date: 2021-12-01 13:36:17
Message-ID: CAA4eK1K9ghq8GxWMwN6=yKXTRJz7xbws+s2HiuyTV0oPokFTnQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 2:12 AM Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 17:25 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > I think it would be better to do it before we allow subscription
> > owners to be non-superusers.
>
> There are a couple other things to consider before allowing non-
> superusers to create subscriptions anyway. For instance, a non-
> superuser shouldn't be able to use a connection string that reads the
> certificate file from the server unless they also have
> pg_read_server_files privs.
>

Isn't allowing to create subscriptions via non-superusers and allowing
to change the owner two different things? I am under the impression
that the latter one is more towards allowing the workers to apply
changes with a non-superuser role.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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