Re: Privileges and inheritance

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Privileges and inheritance
Date: 2009-10-05 19:51:04
Message-ID: 1254772264.4691.255.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:58 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Simon,
>
> > A small addition though, please. This functionality has been available
> > since 8.1 and changing things could cause existing people's scripts to
> > fail when they upgrade. If we make this change then we should make sure
> > that explicitly GRANTing a permission on the child tables does not fail.

> We're not disabling the
> ability to GRANT permissions on individual child tables.

Until I raised it, that subject had not been mentioned at all, so I've
no idea how you know that either was or was not intended. I wish to make
sure we don't make that error by explicitly stating requirements.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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