Re: Groups and roles - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andreas Pflug
Subject Re: Groups and roles
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Msg-id 3EED7F7D.6070004@web.de
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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 wrote:

>>>1. Do we want to someday allow groups to have groups as members?  (Seems
>>>reasonable to me.)
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>>I agree.
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>I think the other requirement of roles is that they are able to own objects.
>ie. we need to allow groups to own objects.
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This would also solve the problem that information_schema views will 
show only owned objects. If objects are created as owned by a proper 
role, not only the creator will be able to use these views.

Regards,
Andreas




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