Re: Groups and roles

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Groups and roles
Date: 2003-06-16 05:55:28
Message-ID: 0cca01c333cb$e42910a0$6500a8c0@fhp.internal
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> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > I think the other requirement of roles is that they are able to own
objects.
> > ie. we need to allow groups to own objects.
>
> Hm. That seems to be another reason to unify usesysid and grosysid into
> a single unique something-id. Which probably implies unifying pg_shadow
> and pg_group into one table.

Bear in mind that I recalled that from something I thought you (or someone)
said on the list earlier and I thought you had forgotten about...

eg. I don't know that that's a requirement...

Chris

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