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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: DROP ROLE as SUPERUSER
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:05:50 -0500
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"David G. Johnston" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thursday, February 20, 2025, Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hi. Today I was surprised that REVOKE ALL ON DATABASE FROM ROLE silently
>> did nothing, even with CASCADE, when I was running it as SUPERUSER,
>> preventing DROP'ing the ROLE. I had to manually SET ROLE to the GRANTOR, do
>> the REVOKE, which DID something this time, and then I could DROP the role.

> This has nothing to do with power/permissions.  It is about not specifying
> “granted by” in your SQL command and thus failing to fully and correctly
> specify the single permission you want to revoke.

It used to be that if a superuser issued GRANT/REVOKE, the operation
was silently done as the owner of the affected object.  That was
always a bit of a wart, since among other things it meant that the
object owner could undo it.  Now you have to say "GRANTED BY <owner>"
to get that effect.  I'm not entirely sure, but I think this is closer
to what the SQL standard says.

			regards, tom lane

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