Re: two questions about pg 9.0 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: two questions about pg 9.0
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Msg-id 4CB8D4B6.2000500@lelarge.info
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In response to Re: two questions about pg 9.0  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
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Le 13/10/2010 23:20, Guillaume Lelarge a écrit :
> Hi Kasia,
>
> Le 13/10/2010 22:21, Kasia Tuszynska a écrit :
>> [...]
>> Thanks for your reply I did a bit more testing with the superuser priv issue, and now I came to the conclusion that
pgAdminIIImay be doing something silly. 
>>
>
> Sure, that happens more than I would like.
>
>> I created a user: bob
>>
>> In pgAdminIII I checked off the box for: can inherit from parent role, can create db object, superuser
>> Got the following sql:
>> CREATE ROLE bob LOGIN
>>   ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'md51e9484aace238e7cb2609130fd87646e'
>>   SUPERUSER INHERIT CREATEDB NOCREATEROLE;
>> UPDATE pg_authid SET rolcapupdate=false WHERE rolname='bob';
>>
>> Than I created bobb
>> In pgAdminIII I checked off the box for: can inherit from parent role, can create db object, superuser, Can modify
catalogdirectly 
>> Got the following sql:
>> CREATE ROLE bobb LOGIN
>>   ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'md51e9484aace238e7cb2609130fd87646e'
>>   SUPERUSER INHERIT CREATEDB NOCREATEROLE;
>>
>> Conclusion:
>> Sql level superuser = pgAdminIII superuser + can modify catalog directly
>>
>> This is misleading, I would call it a pgAdminIII bug but who knows maybe it is a feature...
>>
>
> I would not call it a feature. I find this misleading too. I'm too tired
> right now to work on a fix, but it'll be easy and quick to do.
>
> I have a few things to commit tomorrow. I'll try to work on this at the
> same time.
>

I commited a fix. It should be available when 1.12.2 will be released.


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