Re: Additional role attributes && superuser review

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 05/08/2015 07:35 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> In consideration of the fact that you can't create schemas which start
>> with "pg_" and therefore the default search_path wouldn't work for that
>> user, and that we also reserve "pg_" for tablespaces, I'm not inclined
>> to worry too much about this case. Further, if we accept this argument,
>> then we simply can't ever provide additional default or system roles,
>> ever. That'd be a pretty narrow corner to have painted ourselves into.
>
>
> Well, you could still provide them through some other mechanism, like
> require typing "SYSTEM ROLE pg_backup" any time you mean that magic role.
> But I agree, reserving pg_* is much better. I wish we had done it when we
> invented roles (6.5?), so there would be no risk that you would upgrade from
> a system that already has a "pg_foo" role. But I think it'd still be OK.
>
> I agree with Robert's earlier point that this needs to be split into
> multiple patches, which can then be reviewed and discussed separately.
> Pending that, I'm going to mark this as "Waiting on author" in the
> commitfest.

... And now marked as returned with feedback.
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Michael