Re: Superowners

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Superowners
Date: 2017-01-26 17:37:44
Message-ID: d4990b71-d71c-f3d9-2f83-51cbaca270b6@2ndquadrant.com
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On 1/24/17 8:19 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> What about just saying that the database owner has those privileges?
> After all, the ultimate privilege of an owner is to drop the object
> (and then remake it as she pleases), and the DB owner has that option
> w.r.t. the whole database. So I'm not sure we need to invent a new
> concept.

A database owner does not necessarily have the permission to create a
new database.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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