Re: Proposal for SYNONYMS

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for SYNONYMS
Date: 2006-03-09 17:15:37
Message-ID: 20060309171536.GH4474@ns.snowman.net
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* Jonah H. Harris (jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> In addition, SYNONYMS do participate in ACLs and support GRANT/REVOKE for
> table privileges. DROP TABLE and TRUNCATE cannot be used with synonyms.

I assume you actually mean "owner-level rights cannot be used with
synonyms".

> - Permission on a synonym does not override the permission on the referenced
> object

Need to be careful here and also make sure schema-level permissions
aren't able to be circumvented.

Sounds good to me in general though.

Thanks!

Stephen

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