Re: AW: Proposal for enhancements of privilege system

From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE>
To: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
Cc: "'PostgreSQL Development'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: AW: Proposal for enhancements of privilege system
Date: 2000-05-30 11:49:40
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.02A.10005301347380.10362-100000@Leopard.DoCS.UU.SE
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On Tue, 30 May 2000, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:

> Of course the grant revoke is the same. But administrative tools
> usually allow you to dump schema, all rights, triggers ... for an
> object and thus need access to the system tables containing the
> grants.

That's what you use the information schema views for. Also, of course,
we're light years away from having anything like a portable pg_dump.

> Imho this is an area that is extremly sensitive to performance, the
> rights have to be checked for each access.

But using some sort of arrays is going to make it slower in any case since
you can't use indexes on those.

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