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Re: Predefined role pg_maintenance for VACUUM, ANALYZE, CHECKPOINT.

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-11-04T22:46:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2021-11-04 14:25:54 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-11-04 at 12:37 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I don't have anything specific to propose, which I realize is kind of
> > unhelpful ... but I don't like this, either.
> 
> We can go back to having a pg_checkpoint predefined role that is only
> used for the CHECKPOINT command.

What about extending GRANT to allow to grant rights on commands? Yes, it'd be
a bit of work to make that work in the catalogs, but it doesn't seem too hard
to tackle.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Add pg_checkpointer predefined role for CHECKPOINT command.