On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 09:47:40AM -0700, Paul Jungwirth wrote: > I wrote a blog post about the Postgres permissions system, and I thought I'd > share: > > http://illuminatedcomputing.com/posts/2017/03/postgres-permissions/
> I also shared a few opinions amidst the facts (like that `USAGE` for schemas > doesn't add much), so I am very pleased to have those challenged. You can > consider them my own outstanding questions. I'd be especially grateful for > any feedback there. Not that I am an expert in any way but here's a thought on why a permission on foreign key creation might be useful: Being able to create foreign keys may allow to indirectly discover whether certain values exists in a table which I don't otherwise have access to (by means of failure or success to create a judiciously crafted FK). Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
