On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 06:58:25PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > I'm not against that idea, though I continue to feel that there are > common sets of privileges which backup tools could leverage. > > The other issue that I'm running into, again, while considering how to > move back to ACL-based permissions for these objects is that we can't > grant out the actual permissions which currently exist. That means we
Is that because many of them are complex, e.g. you can kill only your own sessions? > either need to break backwards compatibility, which would be pretty > ugly, in my view, or come up with new functions and then users will have > to know which functions to use when. > > As I don't think we really want to break backwards compatibility or > remove existing functionality, the only approach which is going to make > sense is to add additional functions in some cases. In particular, we > will need alternate versions of pg_terminate_backend and > pg_cancel_backend. One thought I had was to make that Like these? Could we define own-user-type rights? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Roman grave inscription + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
