Re: Suggestion GRANT ALTER, TRIGGER ON ALTER

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion GRANT ALTER, TRIGGER ON ALTER
Date: 2003-05-21 16:05:25
Message-ID: 200305210905.25011.josh@agliodbs.com
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Chris,

> > No, I suppose not; what David really needs is GRANT ALTER; including
> > GRANT DROP just seemed consistent.
>
> How is GRANT ALTER less powerful than GRANT DROP? You can just ALTER
> TABLE/DROP COLUMN all the columns in the table if you like, effectively
> dropping (or wrecking) the table.

Another good point. Makes sense to just do GRANT ALTER then, which would
cover DROP as well.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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