Re: CREATE DATABASE foo OWNER bar

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CREATE DATABASE foo OWNER bar
Date: 2007-04-17 20:48:01
Message-ID: 200704172048.l3HKm1I28748@momjian.us
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > I think I found a bug, or at least a POLA violation. At work, I created
> > a user that is NOT a superuser, nor can that user create databases. When I
> > did a create database foo owner bar, all the schemas are set to be owned by
> > the superuser that created the database, not the database owner.
> >
> > Shouldn't everything that is in the DB be owned by the purported owner?
>
> Right. This is on TODO:
>
> %Set proper permissions on non-system schemas during db creation
>
> Currently all schemas are owned by the super-user because they are copied from
> the template1 database.
>
>
> I note it is marked with a %, but it's clearly not easy at all.

'%' removed.

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