Re: Reimplementing permission checks for rules

Tom Lane writes:

> OK. BTW, what is the status of the changeover you proposed re using
> OIDs instead of int4 userids as the unique identifiers for users?

Because of the pg_dumpall thing that had to be postponed for another
release, otherwise the users would be associated to the wrong groups on
restore.

> In other words, should my field be type Oid or type int4?

Interesting question, actually, because the master uid global variable has
always been a Oid type but it was mostly referenced as int4. Considering
that we have a whole oid/int4 mess and that you can't have negative uid's
anyway, you might as well go for the Oid now if you don't mind.

--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/