Re: indirect membership in group roles

Kev <kevinjamesfield@gmail.com> writes:
> For some reason, which I couldn't see spelled out very well in the
> docs for GRANT ROLE and SET ROLE, indirect membership in the group
> "user" doesn't give one its privileges unless you SET ROLE "user"
> first, even if all roles involved have INHERIT set.

Really?  Works for me:

regression=# create group student inherit;
CREATE ROLE
regression=# create group employee inherit;
CREATE ROLE
regression=# create group "user";
CREATE ROLE
regression=# grant "user" to student;
GRANT ROLE
regression=# grant "user" to employee;
GRANT ROLE
regression=# create user joe inherit;
CREATE ROLE
regression=# grant student to joe;
GRANT ROLE
regression=# create table mytable (f1 int);
CREATE TABLE
regression=# grant select on mytable to "user";
GRANT
regression=# \c - joe
psql (8.4devel)
You are now connected to database "regression" as user "joe".
regression=> select * from mytable;
 f1
----
(0 rows)

I suspect you forgot to attach the "inherit" property to the
intermediate-level group.

            regards, tom lane