Re: CREATEROLE and role ownership hierarchies - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mark Dilger
Subject Re: CREATEROLE and role ownership hierarchies
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Msg-id 8961992A-F04B-478F-95DA-B38DD48E89FC@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: CREATEROLE and role ownership hierarchies  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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> On Jan 24, 2022, at 2:21 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>
> Being able to create and drop users is, in fact, effectively a superuser-only task today.  We could throw out the
entireidea of role ownership, in fact, as being entirely unnecessary when talking about that specific task. 

Wow, that's totally contrary to how I see this patch.  The heart and soul of this patch is to fix the fact that
CREATEROLEis currently overpowered.  Everything else is gravy. 

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Mark Dilger
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