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Re: Granting SET and ALTER SYSTE privileges for GUCs

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-11-17T20:24:09Z
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On 11/17/21 12:12, Mark Dilger wrote:
>
>> On Nov 17, 2021, at 9:06 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>>
>> I agree it's not ideal. At the time I suggested a more flexible approach
>> I hadn't really thought about the problems of upgrading. If you can come
>> up with something that works there then I'll be all ears.
> Are you talking about upgrades preserving revocations of privileges on gucs from predefined roles, or merely preserving grants and revocation of privileges on gucs to regular roles?  I think the former problem is easily handled by not shipping any predefined roles with such privileges.  The latter problem would seem to be a mere matter of programming, something I'm working on but don't have finished.  (But maybe you see dragons ahead for me that I'm not seeing yet?)
>

Yes, if we don't ship with any preset privileges then the problem I was
thinking about disappears.


cheers


andrew


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Andrew Dunstan
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Commits

  1. Allow granting SET and ALTER SYSTEM privileges on GUC parameters.