| From: | Michael Banck <michael(dot)banck(at)credativ(dot)de> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Superowners |
| Date: | 2017-01-26 18:05:19 |
| Message-ID: | 20170126180518.GA31857@nighthawk.caipicrew.dd-dns.de |
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:37:44PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 1/24/17 8:19 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > What about just saying that the database owner has those privileges?
> > After all, the ultimate privilege of an owner is to drop the object
> > (and then remake it as she pleases), and the DB owner has that option
> > w.r.t. the whole database. So I'm not sure we need to invent a new
> > concept.
>
> A database owner does not necessarily have the permission to create a
> new database.
Right.
Would a "TRUNCATE <database>;" (i.e. empty the database, but don't
delete it) make sense/be useful for that maybe?
Michael
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