Re: CATUPDATE confusion? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: CATUPDATE confusion?
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Msg-id 54EE8C6E.8090506@gmx.net
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In response to Re: CATUPDATE confusion?  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: CATUPDATE confusion?  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On 2/25/15 3:39 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> I'd get rid of that whole check, not just replace rolcatupdate by rolsuper.
> 
> Err, wouldn't this make it possible to grant normal users the ability to
> modify system catalogs?  I realize that they wouldn't have that
> initially, but I'm not sure we want the superuser to be able to grant
> that to non-superusers..

Why not?  I thought we are trying to get rid of special superuser behavior.

After all, superusers can also make the other user a superuser to bypass
this issue.




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