Re: DROP ROLE dependency tracking ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: DROP ROLE dependency tracking ...
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Msg-id 20081216114837.GC4741@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: DROP ROLE dependency tracking ...  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote:
> > 
> > > when thinking of REASSIGNED OWNED people tend to think about tables  
> > > rather than about CONNECT rights.
> > > i would suggest to make DROP ROLE just kill the role unless there is a  
> > > real object depending on it.
> > > i would not see a permission to be an object. what do you think?
> > 
> > Yes, this might make some sense.  (Keep in mind that db CONNECT
> > privileges were invented after REASSIGN OWNED).  Perhaps we could make
> > exceptions -- in which case it would be good to investigate which
> > exceptions we need (i.e. for all object types that we support, which
> > ones we should be caring about and which ones we should ignore).
> > 
> > I'm stuck in Canuckistan for a week still, so I expect your detailed
> > proposal by when I get back home ;-)
> 
> Was there any progress on this?

Not from my side --- and Hans-Juergen never got back to me either ...

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