On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 11:24:56PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > > I am unclear if we should be copying the CONNECT and TEMPORARY > > attributes or documenting that CREATE DATABASE does not copy them. > > We should absolutely not copy them. > > As an example, it'd make sense for an admin to revoke CONNECT on a > template database, just to help ensure that nobody modifies it. > If that propagated to every created database, it would be a complete > fail. > > Moreover, since the ACLs of an object depend quite a bit on who the owner > is, it'd make no sense to copy them to a new object that has a different > owner. The granted-by fields would be wrong, if nothing else. > > In practice, CREATE DATABASE never has copied any database-level property > of the template DB, only its contents. (Well, I guess it copies encoding > and collation by default, but those are descriptive of the contents.)
Well, I thought we copied everything except things tha can be specified as different in CREATE DATABASE, though I can see why we would not copy them. Should we document this or issue a notice about not copying non-default database attributes? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee
