Re: Role membership and DROP

On Tue, 2019-11-19 at 13:21 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> > On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 13:41 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> > > > On Wed, 2019-11-13 at 17:17 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > > It might be worth clarifying this point in section 5.7,
> > > > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/ddl-priv.html
> > I like your second sentence, but I think that "the right ... is inherent
> > in being the ... owner" is unnecessarily complicated.
> > Removing the "always" and "only" makes the apparent contradiction between
> > the sentences less jarring to me.
>
> I think it's important to emphasize that this is implicit in object
> ownership.
>
> Looking at the page again, I notice that there's a para a little further
> down that overlaps quite a bit with what we're discussing here, but it's
> about implicit grant options rather than the right to DROP. In the
> attached, I reworded that too, and moved it because it's not fully
> intelligible until we've explained grant options. Thoughts?

I am fine with that.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe