Stephen Frost wrote:
> The other difference would seem to be that "user identifiers" can't
> be granted to users whereas "role identifiers" can be. Following
> this, "rolmembers" must be NULL if rolcanlogin is true, no? That
> breaks if roles can log in though. Or should we just allow granting
> of "user identifiers" to other users- but if we do should the user be
> permitted to do that?
If he has admin option on his own role, sure. But I suppose by default
we wouldn't.
One use case I see is if someone goes on vacation he can temporarily
grant the privileges held by his user account to others without
actually giving out the login data.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
