Re: Port Reports: UnixWare/Failure/Priviledge Test - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Larry Rosenman
Subject Re: Port Reports: UnixWare/Failure/Priviledge Test
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Msg-id 86740000.1067459705@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net
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In response to Port Reports: UnixWare/Failure/Priviledge Test  (Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>)
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--On Wednesday, October 29, 2003 15:26:39 -0500 Tom Lane
<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
[snip]
> Is this a bug, or is it correct-per-spec behavior?  It's surely likely
> to confuse people.  I wonder whether superusers shouldn't be allowed to
> revoke privileges granted by other people.  As the code stands, they
> cannot.
It seems to me that a superuser SHOULD be able to affect ANY permissions on
ANY object in the DB.

[snip]


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