Re: [PATCHES] Merge pg_shadow && pg_group -- UNTESTED - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Merge pg_shadow && pg_group -- UNTESTED
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Msg-id 26516.1106450681@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] Merge pg_shadow && pg_group -- UNTESTED  (Euler Taveira de Oliveira <eulerto@yahoo.com.br>)
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira <eulerto@yahoo.com.br> writes:
> What's Role? A set of relations with their respective privileges and
> a set of users and/or roles.

Huh?  How did relations get into it?

> What do we do with 'groups'? Well, we can have three categories of
> object owners: users, groups and roles. So the 'group owner' can be
> implemented with this model.

Why wouldn't we fold all three into one concept?  In particular, I
really fail to see why we'd still keep a separate notion of groups.
        regards, tom lane


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