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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: v16 roles, SET FALSE, INHERIT FALSE, ADMIN FALSE
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 12:58:06 -0700
Message-ID: <CAKFQuwaSk4Ftn52X3aup9upDkurAunTHLB1XtZb0Pkzs7TTYUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 12:23 PM Christophe Pettus <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> This is more curiosity than anything else.  In the v16 role system, is
> there actually any reason to grant membership in a role to a different
> role, but with SET FALSE, INHERIT FALSE, and ADMIN FALSE?  Does the role
> granted membership gain any ability it didn't have before in that case?
>
>
That scenario is allowed but provides no useful in-server behavior.  I
suppose the membership presence/absence could be given external meaning by
a DBA.  Personally, I'd just add a metric on the server counting these and
alert if it is ever non-zero.

David J.

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