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Re: v16 roles, SET FALSE, INHERIT FALSE, ADMIN FALSE
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* Re: v16 roles, SET FALSE, INHERIT FALSE, ADMIN FALSE
@ 2024-07-08 19:58 David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
  2024-07-08 20:14 ` Re: v16 roles, SET FALSE, INHERIT FALSE, ADMIN FALSE Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
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From: David G. Johnston @ 2024-07-08 19:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-general

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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* Re: v16 roles, SET FALSE, INHERIT FALSE, ADMIN FALSE
  2024-07-08 19:58 Re: v16 roles, SET FALSE, INHERIT FALSE, ADMIN FALSE David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
@ 2024-07-08 20:14 ` Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
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From: Christophe Pettus @ 2024-07-08 20:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-general



> On Jul 8, 2024, at 12:58, David G. Johnston <[email protected]> wrote:
> That scenario is allowed but provides no useful in-server behavior. 

That was my conclusion as well.  Thanks!





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