Re: Groups and roles - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Groups and roles
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Msg-id 26649.1055741082@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Groups and roles  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> I think the other requirement of roles is that they are able to own objects.
> ie. we need to allow groups to own objects.

Hm.  That seems to be another reason to unify usesysid and grosysid into
a single unique something-id.  Which probably implies unifying pg_shadow
and pg_group into one table.
        regards, tom lane


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