Re: Streaming replication as a separate permissions

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 17:23, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On the other hand, the REPLICATION privilege is denying you the right to
>>> perform an operation *even though you already are authenticated as a
>>> superuser*.  I don't think there's anywhere else in the system where
>>> we allow a privilege to non-super-users but deny that same privilege
>>> to super-users, and I don't think we should be starting now.
>>
>> You might want to reflect on rolcatupdate a bit before asserting that
>> there are no cases where privileges are ever denied to superusers.
>
> Oh, huh.  I wasn't aware of that.
>
>> However, that precedent would suggest that the default should be to
>> grant the replication bit to superusers.
>
> Yes it would.

Just to be clear: are we saying that "CREATE ROLE foo SUPERUSER"
should grant both superuser and replication, as well as the default
"postgres" user also having replication as well?


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