Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix two bugs in change_owner_recurse_to_sequences: it was

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix two bugs in change_owner_recurse_to_sequences: it was
Date: 2005-03-26 06:35:20
Message-ID: 11051.1111818920@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> I assume that this behaviour makes change owner on a table change owner
> of serial sequences?

Yeah.

> Should we perhaps also propagate grant insert on a table to grant
> select, update on dependent serial sequences?

Doesn't really follow. That code is maintaining an invariant: the owner
of a table owns the associated indexes, toast table, sequences, etc.
There's no system-wide assumption that sequence privileges track table
privileges.

regards, tom lane

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