Re: security label support, part.2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: security label support, part.2
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Msg-id 1282504685.13679.6.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: security label support, part.2  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: security label support, part.2  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On sön, 2010-08-22 at 15:08 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Peter Eisentraut (peter_e@gmx.net) wrote:
> > I think there are perfectly good reasons to have different permissions
> > on parent and child tables.  I don't see any reason to monkey around
> > with that.
> 
> Even though the permissions on the child table aren't invovled at all if
> queried through the parent..?  The parent implicitly adds to the set of
> privileges which are granted on the child, but that's not clear at all
> from the permissions visible on the child.  That's principally what I'm
> complaining about here.

Perhaps this is a user interface issue then.  Maybe the fact that a
table is inherited from another one needs to be shown closer to
whereever the permissions are listed.



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