Re: Predefined role pg_maintenance for VACUUM, ANALYZE, CHECKPOINT.

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Predefined role pg_maintenance for VACUUM, ANALYZE, CHECKPOINT.
Date: 2021-11-08 17:45:20
Message-ID: 202111081745.2xfjjcflasr6@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2021-Nov-08, Stephen Frost wrote:

> * Alvaro Herrera (alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org) wrote:

> > That said, if the list is short, then additional predefined roles seem
> > preferrable to having a ton of infrastructure code that might be much
> > more clutter than what seems a short list of additional predefined roles.
>
> None of this strikes me as a 'ton of infrastructure code' and so I'm not
> quite sure I'm following the argument being made here.

I was referring specifically to Andres' idea of having additional DDL
commands handled as special GRANTable privileges,
https://postgr.es/m/20211104224636.5qg6cfyjkw52rh4d@alap3.anarazel.de

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