Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, kleptog(at)svana(dot)org, simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com, gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu, pg(at)rbt(dot)ca, zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and
Date: 2006-01-03 16:29:02
Message-ID: 16856.1136305742@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> In general, I do prefer that permissions be seperably grantable. Being
> able to grant 'truncate' permissions would be really nice. Is the only
> reason such permission doesn't exist due to no one working on it, or is
> there other disagreement about it?

Lack of appetite for having forty nonstandard kinds of privilege,
I suppose ;-)

Given that we now have roles, it's fairly easy to grant "table owner"
to trusted people, so the use-case for special privilege types has
dropped off dramatically IMHO.

regards, tom lane

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