Re: Streaming replication as a separate permissions

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-05T13:24:45Z
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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 04:24, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 17:23, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Just to be clear: are we saying that "CREATE ROLE foo SUPERUSER"
>> should grant both superuser and replication, as well as the default
>> "postgres" user also having replication as well?
>
> I think that's what we're saying.

Ok, done and applied.

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