Bad handling of permissions of dropped users

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Bad handling of permissions of dropped users
Date: 2004-03-16 08:15:53
Message-ID: 4056B7B9.6020202@familyhealth.com.au
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Hi,

I dropped a few users, who had some random permissions.

Now when I try this:

INSERT INTO shop_order_items (order_id, product_id, quantity,
unit_price, bulk) VALUES ('350', '13', '1', '3.00', 'f');

I get this:

ERROR: user with ID 89 does not exist

\dp shop_order shows:

privileges for database "usa"
Schema | Table |
Access privileges
--------+--------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
public | shop_order_items |
{usadmin=a*r*w*d*R*x*t*/usadmin,"\"au-php\"=a/usadmin","\"us-php\"=a/usadmin",support=arwd/usadmin,"group
readonly=r/usadmin"}
public | shop_orders |
{89=a*r*w*d*R*x*t*/89,"\"au-php\"=a/89","\"us-php\"=arw/89",support=arwd/89,"group
readonly=r/89"}
public | shop_orders_order_id_seq |
{89=a*r*w*d*R*x*t*/89,"\"au-php\"=rw/89","\"us-php\"=rw/89",support=rw/89,"group
readonly=r/89"}
(3 rows)

Note that shop_order_items itself has no reference to old user 89,
however shop_orders and its sequence do. There is a FK from the
shop_order_items table to shop_orders.

I guess it's all failing because I dropped the user that granted all
those permissions to my other users?

What's the solution? Should this be fixed in PostgreSQL somehow?

version
---------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 7.4.1 on i386-portbld-freebsd4.9, compiled by GCC 2.95.4
(1 row)

Chris

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