On 3/3/15 5:22 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> The
> problem with the role attribute approach is that they aren't inheirted
> the way GRANTs are, which means you can't have a "backup" role that is
> then granted out to users, you'd have to set a "BACKUP" role attribute
> for every role added.
Yeah, but you'd still have to grant "backup" to every role created
anyway, right?
Or you could create a role that has the backup attribute and then grant
that to users. Then they'd have to intentionally SET ROLE my_backup_role
to elevate their privilege. That seems like a safer way to do things...
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