Re: Groups and roles - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Groups and roles
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Msg-id 0cca01c333cb$e42910a0$6500a8c0@fhp.internal
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In response to Re: Groups and roles  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> > I think the other requirement of roles is that they are able to own
objects.
> > ie. we need to allow groups to own objects.
>
> Hm.  That seems to be another reason to unify usesysid and grosysid into
> a single unique something-id.  Which probably implies unifying pg_shadow
> and pg_group into one table.

Bear in mind that I recalled that from something I thought you (or someone)
said on the list earlier and I thought you had forgotten about...

eg. I don't know that that's a requirement...

Chris



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