Re: Problem with recent permission changes commits

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Problem with recent permission changes commits
Date: 2007-08-27 15:30:38
Message-ID: 46D2EE1E.8040203@commandprompt.com
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just saw this in the weekly news:
>
> Restrict pg_relation_size to relation owner, pg_database_size to DB
> owner, and pg_tablespace_size to superusers. Perhaps we could
> weaken the first case to just require SELECT privilege, but that
> doesn't work for the other cases, so use ownership as the common
> concept.
>
> This is a problem. Our analytics software purposefully does not use a
> super user, you are going to force the use of superusers with admin and
> monitoring tools.
>
> Of course this may be m00t if I am able to modify the GRANT?

Please forgive the use of 00 I have zero idea where that came from.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>

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