Re: DROP TABLE can be issued by schema owner as well as table owner

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Derrick Rice <derrick(dot)rice(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: DROP TABLE can be issued by schema owner as well as table owner
Date: 2011-05-20 17:24:26
Message-ID: 4DD6A3CA.3060302@lelarge.info
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Le 05/20/2011 06:53 PM, Alvaro Herrera a écrit :
> Excerpts from Derrick Rice's message of vie may 20 12:35:24 -0400 2011:
>> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
>> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>wrote:
>>
>>> Well, for a specific object, any superuser, the database owner, the
>>> schema owner, and the object owner could drop the object. This is not a
>>> vulnerability.
>>>
>>
>> It is not documented clearly. Any information not made clear is an
>> opportunity for an error which leads to a vulnerability.
>
> So we need a standard caveat stmt on all relevant pages? Seems
> reasonable to me.
>

Could be. Not sure it's that important.

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