Re: Database Users Management and Privileges

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Jean-Francois Leveque <leveque(at)webmails(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Database Users Management and Privileges
Date: 2001-07-06 14:17:04
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0107061616150.679-100000@peter.localdomain
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Jean-Francois Leveque writes:

> Comming from Oracle, I was disapointed that
> the users were not "per individual database".

> Is there any chance that this will change in
> the future ?

Most likely not. For one thing, it would be a problem to assign owners to
databases.

> Regarding privileges, I was also disapointed to
> see that the object owner rights (ALL) had to
> be stored when grants where made on those objects
> to other users. I rememeber reading something
> about changes in privileges storing.

This has been corrected in 7.1.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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