Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

Cc: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, kleptog@svana.org, simon@2ndquadrant.com, gsstark@mit.edu, pg@rbt.ca, zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2006-01-03T16:29:02Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> In general, I do prefer that permissions be seperably grantable.  Being
> able to grant 'truncate' permissions would be really nice.  Is the only
> reason such permission doesn't exist due to no one working on it, or is
> there other disagreement about it?

Lack of appetite for having forty nonstandard kinds of privilege,
I suppose ;-)

Given that we now have roles, it's fairly easy to grant "table owner"
to trusted people, so the use-case for special privilege types has
dropped off dramatically IMHO.

			regards, tom lane