From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Streaming replication as a separate permissions |
Date: | 2011-01-03 22:50:35 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTikGK62xzg9wT9Jx0ofk=qNqGjBad5WV7rr5Tto2@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 17:23, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> On the other hand, the REPLICATION privilege is denying you the right to
>>> perform an operation *even though you already are authenticated as a
>>> superuser*. I don't think there's anywhere else in the system where
>>> we allow a privilege to non-super-users but deny that same privilege
>>> to super-users, and I don't think we should be starting now.
>>
>> You might want to reflect on rolcatupdate a bit before asserting that
>> there are no cases where privileges are ever denied to superusers.
>
> Oh, huh. I wasn't aware of that.
>
>> However, that precedent would suggest that the default should be to
>> grant the replication bit to superusers.
>
> Yes it would.
Just to be clear: are we saying that "CREATE ROLE foo SUPERUSER"
should grant both superuser and replication, as well as the default
"postgres" user also having replication as well?
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Magnus Hagander
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