On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:19:18PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > It has been submitted as a patch was delayed because we were going to
> > overhaul the entire permission system. What has happened is that
> > release after release has been made with no redesign, and not addition
> > of this feature. I hope we can push for this in 7.3.
>
> I am expecting that it will fall out of the schema/namespace work more
> or less for free: if you don't have write permissions on any schemas,
> you can't create tables.
But we can still think about better privilege system with more
settings. For example Oracle's GRANT/REVOKE is still better :-)
There was some planns, Peter, Jan? IMHO now is good time for open
this theme again.
Karel
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