Re: "Freezing" per-role settings

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: "Freezing" per-role settings
Date: 2010-09-07 21:59:54
Message-ID: 1283896794.16596.5.camel@jdavis-ux.asterdata.local
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On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 14:49 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> There are two problems at hand here, as I see it: the more general
> problem of "freezing" settings for a given role, and the very specific
> capability of guaranteeing read-only-ness, which could have large
> implications in, for example, data warehousing and replication
> systems.
>
> Should we just call them separate problems, look into how to approach
> the latter one, and table the former?

That sounds like a good plan. Right now, the only solid use case we have
is "read only role", and it's difficult to build a (good) general
mechanism from a single use case.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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