| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Euler Taveira de Oliveira <eulerto(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] Merge pg_shadow && pg_group -- UNTESTED |
| Date: | 2005-01-23 03:24:41 |
| Message-ID: | 26516.1106450681@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira <eulerto(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br> writes:
> What's Role? A set of relations with their respective privileges and
> a set of users and/or roles.
Huh? How did relations get into it?
> What do we do with 'groups'? Well, we can have three categories of
> object owners: users, groups and roles. So the 'group owner' can be
> implemented with this model.
Why wouldn't we fold all three into one concept? In particular, I
really fail to see why we'd still keep a separate notion of groups.
regards, tom lane
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