Re: Superowners

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Superowners
Date: 2017-01-30 00:44:45
Message-ID: 20170130004445.GQ9812@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Peter Eisentraut (peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> On 1/26/17 1:25 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > That should include the ability to dump all objects, yet without any
> > security details. And it should allow someone to setup logical
> > replication easily, including both trigger based and new logical
> > replication. And GRANT ON ALL should work.
>
> This basically sounds like a GRANT $privilege ON ALL $objecttype TO
> $user. So you could have a user that can read everything, for example.
>
> This kind of thing has been asked for many times, but that quieted down
> when the default privileges feature appeared. I think it would still be
> useful.

Agreed. I would think we'd either do this with a default role or a role
attribute.

Thanks!

Stephen

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