Re: Users and object privileges maintenance

From: Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pavel Luzanov <p(dot)luzanov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Lok P <loknath(dot)73(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Users and object privileges maintenance
Date: 2024-02-18 18:35:00
Message-ID: CAFCRh-_qYCD4Ex1KfL5Vmer_cwvqvagzKo0Xn2L2_iU3domWqQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 4:33 PM Pavel Luzanov <p(dot)luzanov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
wrote:

> On 18.02.2024 17:40, Dominique Devienne wrote:
>
> Well, membership in a role mean you can "become that role", no? Thus this
> seems logical,
> and not confusing to me, that you can act as the owner, since you SET ROLE
> to the owner.
>
> They may acts as the owner even without explicit SET ROLE to the owner.
> It wasn't obvious to me when I came to postgres from oracle.
>
> Well, that depends on INHERIT on the ROLE, and since v16 on the membership
GRANT, probably.
But that's a good point, worth mentioning indeed. As I wrote, understanding
INHERIT is important. --DD

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