Re: DROP OWNED BY fails to drop privileges granted by non-owners (was Re: [GENERAL] Bug, Feature, or what else?)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andreas Kretschmer <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: DROP OWNED BY fails to drop privileges granted by non-owners (was Re: [GENERAL] Bug, Feature, or what else?)
Date: 2013-02-08 18:09:07
Message-ID: 29845.1360346947@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I am not sure I am following. Are we talking two different cases here?

What I was pointing out was that the non-superuser case seems to be
broken almost completely, whereas the superuser case is only broken
if the object owner has given away some grant options and those have
been exercised.

regards, tom lane

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