On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 09:15:03AM -0800, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> The main idea behind this work is breaking out privileges into more
> granular pieces. If I want to create a role that only runs VACUUM on some
> tables on the weekend, why ѕhould I have to also give it the ability to
> ANALYZE, REFRESH, CLUSTER, and REINDEX? IMHO we should really let the user
> decide what set of privileges makes sense for their use-case. I'm unsure
> the grouping all these privileges together serves much purpose besides
> preserving ACL bits.
Hmm. I'd like to think that we should keep a frugal mind here. More
bits are now available, but it does not strike me as a good idea to
force their usage more than necessary, so grouping all these no-quite
DDL commands into the same bag does not sound that bad to me.
--
Michael
