Re: Q: GRANT ... WITH ADMIN on PG 17

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM Pavel Luzanov <p(dot)luzanov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
>> On 22.08.2025 11:40, Laurenz Albe wrote:
>> Yes, that should work as follows: [...]

> [...] A safer option is to use security definer function to grant membership

FWIW, it's basically what I did.

My primary "admin" application role lost CREATEROLE,
and instead gained EXECUTE on security-definer procs
from a new lower-level role (with CREATEROLE),
in a new separate schema, which does all create/drop
roles or grant/revoke DDLs.

Which has the added benefits to enforce naming conventions for roles,
to enforce grants are only between our "per-DB" roles,
and made it easy to generate an audit-log for all those DDLs.

So the v16 ROLE changes created a BIG MESS for us,
slowing us down quite a bit, but we ended up with a much
better "v2" architecture, so it was not all a loss... YMMV.

So +1 to Pavel. --DD