Re: Groups and roles

From: Andreas Pflug <Andreas(dot)Pflug(at)web(dot)de>
To: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Groups and roles
Date: 2003-06-16 08:27:41
Message-ID: 3EED7F7D.6070004@web.de
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>>>1. Do we want to someday allow groups to have groups as members? (Seems
>>>reasonable to me.)
>>>
>>>
>>I agree.
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>I think the other requirement of roles is that they are able to own objects.
>ie. we need to allow groups to own objects.
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This would also solve the problem that information_schema views will
show only owned objects. If objects are created as owned by a proper
role, not only the creator will be able to use these views.

Regards,
Andreas

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