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Re: Streaming replication as a separate permissions

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-03T16:23:29Z
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On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On the other hand, the REPLICATION privilege is denying you the right to
>> perform an operation *even though you already are authenticated as a
>> superuser*.  I don't think there's anywhere else in the system where
>> we allow a privilege to non-super-users but deny that same privilege
>> to super-users, and I don't think we should be starting now.
>
> You might want to reflect on rolcatupdate a bit before asserting that
> there are no cases where privileges are ever denied to superusers.

Oh, huh.  I wasn't aware of that.

> However, that precedent would suggest that the default should be to
> grant the replication bit to superusers.

Yes it would.

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Robert Haas
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