| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | DHS Webmaster <webmaster(at)dhs-club(dot)com>, <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: dropped users appear as numbers in ACL |
| Date: | 2003-11-14 00:10:55 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0311140109050.17499-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Tom Lane writes:
> The reason it's difficult is that users span databases; when you drop a
> user in database A, you have no way of seeing/removing references to him
> that exist in databases B, C, ...
>
> I'm not sure there's any really good answer to this short of changing
> the way that users and databases work, which so far no one has wanted
> to do.
One possibility would be to have an explicit "flush privileges" command
that you can run over a database to clean up after this. That might also
help to support grant options on groups, which suffer from a similar
can't-look-into-other-databases problem.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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