Re: TODO Item: ACL_CONNECT - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: TODO Item: ACL_CONNECT
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Msg-id 20060425125917.GG24421@surnet.cl
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In response to Re: TODO Item: ACL_CONNECT  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@commandprompt.com) wrote:
> > Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:16 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > Why are we debating this?  It won't get accepted anyway, because the
> > > > whole thing is silly.  Show me one other object type that we issue
> > > > such warnings for, or anyone else who has even suggested that we should.
> > 
> > No other object type has the ability to require you to stop the server
> > and start a standalone backend to fix the mistake, which is what makes
> > this thing unique.
> 
> Eh?  Isn't that the case if you manage to remove the superuser bit from
> everyone?  Yet it's allowed, I'm not even sure there's a warning..  In
> any case, what we do there can serve as precedent.

Hmm, true.  Maybe we could raise a warning in that case as well :-)

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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