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Re: [HACKERS] Postgres acl (fwd)

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

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From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: kwitten@qdt.com, PostgreSQL-development <hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1998-01-06T17:11:19Z
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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Can someone who has permission to create databases be trusted not to
> delete others?  If we say no, how do we make sure they can change
> pg_database rows on only databases that they own?

	deleting a database is accomplished using 'drop database', no?
Can the code for that not be modified to see whether the person dropping
the database is the person that owns it *or* pgsuperuser?