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Re: Non-superuser subscription owners

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

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From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-12-01T13:36:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 2:12 AM Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 17:25 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > I think it would be better to do it before we allow subscription
> > owners to be non-superusers.
>
> There are a couple other things to consider before allowing non-
> superusers to create subscriptions anyway. For instance, a non-
> superuser shouldn't be able to use a connection string that reads the
> certificate file from the server unless they also have
> pg_read_server_files privs.
>

Isn't allowing to create subscriptions via non-superusers and allowing
to change the owner two different things? I am under the impression
that the latter one is more towards allowing the workers to apply
changes with a non-superuser role.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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  1. Fix possible crash in tablesync worker.

  2. Display 'password_required' option for \dRs+ command.

  3. Restart the apply worker if the 'password_required' option is changed.

  4. Fix possible logical replication crash.

  5. Add new predefined role pg_create_subscription.

  6. Expand AclMode to 64 bits

  7. More cleanup of a2ab9c06ea.

  8. Respect permissions within logical replication.

  9. Improve table locking behavior in the face of current DDL.