Re: Streaming replication as a separate permissions

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 17:23, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>>> On the other hand, the REPLICATION privilege is denying you the right to
>>>> perform an operation *even though you already are authenticated as a
>>>> superuser*.  I don't think there's anywhere else in the system where
>>>> we allow a privilege to non-super-users but deny that same privilege
>>>> to super-users, and I don't think we should be starting now.
>>>
>>> You might want to reflect on rolcatupdate a bit before asserting that
>>> there are no cases where privileges are ever denied to superusers.
>>
>> Oh, huh.  I wasn't aware of that.
>>
>>> However, that precedent would suggest that the default should be to
>>> grant the replication bit to superusers.
>>
>> Yes it would.
>
> Just to be clear: are we saying that "CREATE ROLE foo SUPERUSER"
> should grant both superuser and replication, as well as the default
> "postgres" user also having replication as well?

I think that's what we're saying.

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