From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Pavel Luzanov <p.luzanov@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: add \dpS to psql
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 10:44:11 -0800
Message-ID: <20221209184411.GB59417@nathanxps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221209184055.GA59417@nathanxps13>
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On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 10:40:55AM -0800, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:36:03PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 09:15:03AM -0800, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>>> The main idea behind this work is breaking out privileges into more
>>> granular pieces. If I want to create a role that only runs VACUUM on some
>>> tables on the weekend, why Ń•hould I have to also give it the ability to
>>> ANALYZE, REFRESH, CLUSTER, and REINDEX? IMHO we should really let the user
>>> decide what set of privileges makes sense for their use-case. I'm unsure
>>> the grouping all these privileges together serves much purpose besides
>>> preserving ACL bits.
>>
>> Hmm. I'd like to think that we should keep a frugal mind here. More
>> bits are now available, but it does not strike me as a good idea to
>> force their usage more than necessary, so grouping all these no-quite
>> DDL commands into the same bag does not sound that bad to me.
>
> Okay, it seems I am outnumbered. I will work on updating the patch to add
> an ACL_MAINTAIN bit and a pg_maintain_all_tables predefined role.
Any thoughts on $SUBJECT?
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Nathan Bossart
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