Re: pg_auth_members.grantor is bunk

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_auth_members.grantor is bunk
Date: 2022-06-02 19:40:37
Message-ID: CA+TgmobUcuRsYDzHJ3VMmgE6V6dZi2pujY4p269EpJT7zYrS2w@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 3:15 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Maybe. What I was pointing out is that this is SQL-standard syntax
> and there are SQL-standard semantics that it ought to be implementing.
> Probably those semantics match what you describe here, but we ought
> to dive into the spec and make sure before we spend a lot of effort.
> It's not quite clear to me whether the spec defines any particular
> unique key (identity) for the set of role authorizations.

I sort of thought http://postgr.es/m/3981966.1646429663@sss.pgh.pa.us
constituted a completed investigation of this sort. No?

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

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