Re: Something I don't understand with the use of schemas - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > However there is an effort to get rid of root in some Unix lands,
> > separating its responsabilities with more granularity.  Maybe there
> > could be an effort, not to hand-hold the true superusers, but to
> > delegate some of its responsabilities to other users.
> 
> We did that already (see CREATEROLE privilege in 8.1)

Part of it.  We can still improve, I think.  Not that I have a concrete
proposal to make though.

Regarding CREATEROLE, I wonder why is that a role with that privilege is
able to create other roles containing any privileges (except
superuserness), and not just the privileges the creating role has.

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