grant with hierarchy option
От | Peter Eisentraut |
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Тема | grant with hierarchy option |
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Msg-id | 1256858663.9673.18.camel@vanquo.pezone.net обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: grant with hierarchy option
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Список | pgsql-hackers |
There is a gap in the permission scheme for inheritance setups. Say you have this: CREATE TABLE persons (...); CREATE TABLE employees (...) INHERITS (persons); GRANT SELECT ON persons TO foo; Then user foo can extract who the employees are using SELECT * FROM persons EXCEPT SELECT * FROM ONLY persons; With UPDATE permissions one could then even do moderately evil things like only changing the employees. Proper encapsulation would require that using ONLY is only permitted when specifically allowed. That is what GRANT SELECT WITH HIERARCHY OPTION does, per SQL standard. It is basically a funny spelling for another privilege type that means "may use ONLY". I think this would be the proper and useful thing to do, especially in conjunction with the new recursive grant behavior. There would probably be some upgrading issues. For example, GRANTs imported via pg_dump from 8.4 would probably need to change SELECT to SELECT WITH HIERARCHY OPTION, and even that technically wouldn't cover all cases. Comments?
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