Re: Delegating superuser tasks to new security roles (Was: Granting control of SUSET gucs to non-superusers)

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com>, "sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net" <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net" <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, torikoshia <torikoshia(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Delegating superuser tasks to new security roles (Was: Granting control of SUSET gucs to non-superusers)
Date: 2021-07-23 20:54:03
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYq6QxUnhDsgS6ygAwv3=7ikf_c_87Xh9g7xe5+43qE9A@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 12:11 PM Mark Dilger
<mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> A superuser-only GUC for this is also a bit too heavy handed.

Yeah, but you're inventing a system for allowing the restriction on a
GUC to be something other than is-superuser in the very patch we're
talking about. So it could be something like is-database-security.
Therefore I don't grok the objection.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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