Re: Only owners can ANALYZE tables...seems overly restrictive

2016-02-29 14:31 GMT+01:00 Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>:

> * David G. Johnston (david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> > Given the amount of damage a person with write access to a table can get
> > into it seems pointless to not allow them to analyze the table after
> their
> > updates - since best practices would say that normal work with a table
> > should not be performed by an owner.
> >
> > I should the check for whether a given user can or cannot analyze a table
> > should be whether the user has INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE privileges.
>
> Realistically, ANALYZE is a background/maintenance task that autovacuum
> should be handling for you.
>
>
Realistically, that can't happen every time. Think of temporary tables for
example...

> > I suppose row-level-security might come into play here...
>
> Yes, you may only have access to a subset of the table.
>
> If we had plenty more bits to allow ANALYZE to be independently
> GRANT'able, then maybe, but those are a limited resource.
>
>
Agreed.

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