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Re: add \dpS to psql

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Pavel Luzanov <p.luzanov@postgrespro.ru>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2022-12-09T18:44:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 10:40:55AM -0800, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:36:03PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Okay, it seems I am outnumbered.  I will work on updating the patch to add
> an ACL_MAINTAIN bit and a pg_maintain_all_tables predefined role.

Any thoughts on $SUBJECT?

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Nathan Bossart
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  1. Fix psql \?'s entries for \dp and \z.

  2. psql: Add support for \dpS and \zS.

  3. Add grantable MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain role.