Re: Privileges on PUBLICATION

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 12:16 AM Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2022, at 11:09 AM, Antonin Houska wrote:
>
> Now that the user can specify rows and columns to be omitted from the logical
> replication [1], I suppose hiding rows and columns from the subscriber is an
> important use case. However, since the subscription connection user (i.e. the
> user specified in the CREATE SUBSCRIPTION ... CONNECTION ... command) needs
> SELECT permission on the replicated table (on the publication side), he can
> just use another publication (which has different filters or no filters at
> all) to get the supposedly-hidden data replicated.
>
> The required privileges were not relaxed on publisher after the row filter and
> column list features. It is not just to "create another publication". Create
> publications require CREATE privilege on databases (that is *not* granted to
> PUBLIC).If you have an untrusted user that could bypass your rules about hidden
> data, it is better to review your user privileges.
>

Also, to create a subscription (which combines multiple publications
to bypass rules), a user must be a superuser. So, isn't that a
sufficient guarantee that users shouldn't be able to bypass such
rules?

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.