Re: CREATE DATABASE foo OWNER bar - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: CREATE DATABASE foo OWNER bar
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Msg-id 46238A51.8040602@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: CREATE DATABASE foo OWNER bar  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>   
>> Greetings,
>>     I think I found a bug, or at least a POLA violation.  At work, I created
>> a user that is NOT a superuser, nor can that user create databases.  When I
>> did a create database foo owner bar, all the schemas are set to be owned by
>> the superuser that created the database, not the database owner.
>>
>>     Shouldn't everything that is in the DB be owned by the purported owner?
>>     
>
> Right.  This is on TODO:
>
> %Set proper permissions on non-system schemas during db creation
>
> Currently all schemas are owned by the super-user because they are copied from
> the template1 database. 
>
>
> I note it is marked with a %, but it's clearly not easy at all.
>
>   

If it's only schemas I don't see why it would be very hard. If you want 
that to cascade to all non-system objects, as Larry suggests, it would 
possibly be harder.

In the most common case it will only be the public schema and that will 
be empty.

cheers

andrew


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