Re: pre-proposal: permissions made easier - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: pre-proposal: permissions made easier
Date
Msg-id 20090628220348.GN20436@tamriel.snowman.net
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: pre-proposal: permissions made easier  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Responses Re: pre-proposal: permissions made easier  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
* David Fetter (david@fetter.org) wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 05:27:19PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > Without a major change in the way we do permissions, it will not
> > work  prospectively.  We have no way ATM to store permissions for an
> > object  that does not currently exist.
>
> There have been previous discussions of prospective permissions
> changes.  Are we restarting them here?

Having default permissions for new objects (something a couple of us are
working towards) would help with this situation some.  I don't think the
ground Jeff's proposal would cover is entirely covered by just having
default permissions though.
Stephen

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Jeff Davis
Date:
Subject: Re: pre-proposal: permissions made easier
Next
From: Jeff Davis
Date:
Subject: Re: pre-proposal: permissions made easier