| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Removing pg_pltemplate and creating "trustable" extensions |
| Date: | 2020-01-29 18:19:25 |
| Message-ID: | 28867.1580321965@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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I wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 16:17 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> On the other hand, there's the point that lots of people have probably
>>> given out schema-CREATE privilege to users whom they wouldn't necessarily
>>> wish to trust with INSTALL privilege. Schema-CREATE is a pretty harmless
>>> privilege, INSTALL much less so.
>> CREATE doesn't just control the ability to create schemas these days- it
>> was extended to cover publications also not that long ago.
> Oh really ... hm, that does make it a much bigger deal than I was
> thinking. Given that, I don't think there's any huge objection to
> attaching this to CREATE, at least till we get around to a more
> significant redesign.
Here's a v5 that drops the new predefined role and allows
trusted-extension installation when you have CREATE on the current
database. There's no other changes except a bit of documentation
wordsmithing.
Barring further complaints, I'm going to push this fairly soon.
regards, tom lane
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| 0001-invent-trusted-extensions-5.patch | text/x-diff | 16.6 KB |
| 0002-make-pls-pure-extensions-5.patch | text/x-diff | 13.1 KB |
| 0003-interpret-create-lang-as-create-ext-5.patch | text/x-diff | 28.9 KB |
| 0004-remove-pg_pltemplate-5.patch | text/x-diff | 17.1 KB |
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