| From: | Aren Cambre <aren(at)arencambre(dot)com> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Ashesh Vashi <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Bug: Privileges tab doesn't show all roles |
| Date: | 2011-04-14 12:58:50 |
| Message-ID: | BANLkTinhLn=RneFn6jRHpZPoJWDdUyuHYQ@mail.gmail.com |
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That's not a bad practice when you typically have one non-admin application
account per database. Using a role there just adds complexity. Complexity is
bad.
In this case, the remaining admin users can be a member of a special admin
role or super users.
Aren
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
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>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Aren Cambre <aren(at)arencambre(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I still consider this a usability bug. Even in enterprise IT, it
>> is not uncommon to apply users directly to certain databases if there is
>> only one user account that will be used to access a database (besides admin
>> users, who are all probably members of a superadmin role).
>>
>>
> Maybe, but that doesn't mean that our default configuration should aid such
> bad practice.
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