On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 09:16:59AM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-06-20 at 14:26 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> TBH, I have a mixed feeling about this line of reasoning because
>> MAINTAIN is much broader and less specific than TRUNCATE, for
>> instance, being spawned across so much more operations.
>
> ...
>
>> Some users may find that surprising as they
>> used to have more control over these operations as owners of the
>> relations worked on.
>
> It seems like the user shouldn't be surprised if they can carry out the
> action; nor should they be surprised if they can't carry out the
> action. Having privileges revoked on a table from the table's owner is
> an edge case in behavior and both make sense to me.
>
> In the absense of a use case, I'd be inclined towards just being
> consistent with the other privileges.
Agreed, I think we should make MAINTAIN consistent with the other grantable
privileges.
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Nathan Bossart
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