Re: [PATCH] DefaultACLs

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> The generic issue that the code doesn't even think about addressing
> is which default should apply when there's potentially more than one
> applicable default?  As long as there's only global and per-schema
> defaults, it's not too hard to decide that the latter take precedence
> over the former; but I have no idea what we're going to do in order
> to add any other features.  This seems like a sufficiently big
> conceptual issue that it had better be resolved now, even if the first
> version of the patch doesn't really need to deal with it.

I haven't read the patch, but it seems like one possible solution to
this problem would be to declare that any any DEFAULT PRIVILEGES you
set are cumulative. If you configure a global default, a per-schema
default, a default for tables whose names begin with the letter q, and
a default for tables created between midnight and 4am, then a table
called quux created in that schema at 2:30 in the morning will get the
union of all four sets of privileges.

...Robert