Re: Trouble with v16 new CREATEROLE semantic

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Trouble with v16 new CREATEROLE semantic
Date: 2024-02-15 19:58:28
Message-ID: Zc5s5KSHRI45YFaA@momjian.us
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 06:07:51PM +0100, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> When I read about v16, I thought great, this fits our intent, a single "owner"
> ROLE with CREATEROLE which is limited to administering only the ROLEs it
> created itself. I've always been bothered by the mega-power of CREATEROLE. But
> now that we're actually trying to use it, I'm a bit worried. Can someone
> explain (or guess) what I'm missing here?

Well, have you read the PG 16 release notes?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/release-16.html

You might also want to review my unreleased slide deck about users:

https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/user.pdf

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