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To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: Patrick Stählin <me@packi.ch>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Add sentence about SECURITY LABEL object ownership
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 11:19:02 -0400
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Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes:
> On Thu, 2025-06-05 at 15:29 +0200, Patrick Stählin wrote:
>> I noticed that we don't document that you need to own the object being
>> modified by SECURITY LABEL.
Yeah, clearly a documentation oversight.
> Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that you have to be a member of the owning role?
> But perhaps that would be complicated enough to confuse many users.
> In general, +1 for documenting that.
Our standard boilerplate for this is, eg,
You must own the table to use <command>ALTER TABLE</command>.
I don't see a reason to do it differently here.
regards, tom lane
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