On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 10:21:53PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 7:29 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandboss...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> IIUC you are suggesting that we'd leave rolinherit in pg_authid alone, but >> we'd add the ability to specify a grant-level option that would always take >> precedence. The default (WITH INHERIT DEFAULT) would cause things to work >> exactly as they do today (i.e., use rolinherit). Does this sound right? > > Yeah, that could be an alternative to the patch I proposed previously. > What do you (and others) think of that idea?
I like it. If rolinherit is left in place, existing pg_dumpall scripts will continue to work, and folks can continue to use the role-level option exactly as they do today. However, we'd be adding the ability to use a grant-level option if desired, and it would be relatively easy to reason about (i.e., the grant-level option always takes precedence over the role-level option). Also, AFAICT this strategy still provides the full set of behavior that would be possible if only the grant-level option existed. -- Nathan Bossart Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
