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

On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 3:14 PM Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org> wrote:

> On 11/2/21 4:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> > There's bound to be somebody who wants to grant some of
> > these permissions and not others, or who wants to grant the ability to
> > run those commands on some tables but not others.
> Is there anything stopping us from adding syntax like this?
>
>     GRANT VACUUM, ANALYZE ON TABLE foo TO bar;
>
> That doesn't fix the CHECKPOINT issue, but surely vacuum and analyze can
> be done that way.  I would much prefer that over new predefined roles.
>
> This would be nice, but there is nothing to hang our hat on:
>
>     GRANT CHECKPOINT TO username;
>
>
Here is the thread when I last brought up this idea five years ago:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAKFQuwaAhVt6audf92Q1VrELfJ%2BPz%3DuDfNb8%3D1_bqAmyDpnDmA%40mail.gmail.com

I do not believe we've actually consumed any of the then available
permission bits in the meanwhile.

David J.