Re: DROP TABLE can be issued by schema owner as well as table owner - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: DROP TABLE can be issued by schema owner as well as table owner
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Msg-id 1305910393-sup-7762@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: DROP TABLE can be issued by schema owner as well as table owner  (Derrick Rice <derrick.rice@gmail.com>)
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Excerpts from Derrick Rice's message of vie may 20 12:35:24 -0400 2011:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume@lelarge.info>wrote:
>
> > Well, for a specific object, any superuser, the database owner, the
> > schema owner, and the object owner could drop the object. This is not a
> > vulnerability.
> >
>
> It is not documented clearly.  Any information not made clear is an
> opportunity for an error which leads to a vulnerability.

So we need a standard caveat stmt on all relevant pages?  Seems
reasonable to me.

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