Odd Happening.

From: malcontent <malcontent(at)msgto(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Odd Happening.
Date: 2000-09-09 20:54:45
Message-ID: 39BAA395.B7E6612@msgto.com
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I found out during a pgdump/restore that not all tables were being
backed up. After some investigation I suspect that this was because the
tables in question were not owned by anybody! I don't know how this
happened perhaps a user that owned those tabled was dropped. Another odd
thing was that some of the tables had read permission for a user named
99. There was no such user created that I know of (of course one of the
other admins may have fiddled with it I don't know, nobody has taken
credit for it).

It seems to me the deletion of a user does not cascade to permissions
and ownerships. I suggest that either dropping user ought to be
disalloved at this point or the tables revert to being owned by the
postgres user.

I am looking forward to being able to change owners in a more
straightforward matter.

Thanks for listening.

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