From: | jwieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck) |
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To: | darcy(at)druid(dot)net (D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain) |
Cc: | maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Table permissions problem |
Date: | 1998-08-13 13:42:49 |
Message-ID: | m0z6xeV-000EBPC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de |
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>
> Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> > > Hmm. That makes it difficult. I would like to build databases from
> > > scripts. I guess I can build them as the super user.
> > >
> > > Shouldn't the database owner have more privs then someone using the
> > > database? Is that what that TODO item is actually suggesting?
> >
> > Remember some tables are shared with all databases. Makes things more
> > difficult.
>
> I didn't realize that. I assume that you don't mean some system tables
> as they could, I am sure, be special cased. Can you expand? I once
> had a situation where a table in one database was trashed by being filled
> with data from another table of the same name in another database. Was
> I bitten by this feature somehow? At the same time I like the idea of
> sharing tables. It would be perfect for things like time zone and
> province/state tables.
Especially system tables (pg_database, pg_shadow!, ...).
Jan
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