Re: restructuring "alter table" privilege checks (was: remove redundant ownership checks)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: restructuring "alter table" privilege checks (was: remove redundant ownership checks)
Date: 2010-01-22 16:54:42
Message-ID: 2649.1264179282@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
>>>> I don't particularly like this patch, mainly because I disagree with
>>>> randomly removing permissions checks without any sort of plan about
>>>> where they ought to go.

> [ a plan for rearranging ALTER TABLE's checks ]

Works for me. All I asked for was plan first, code second, and you've
satisfied the precondition.

(I would venture that changing this stuff is probably 9.1 material at
this point, though.)

regards, tom lane

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