Re: Delegating superuser tasks to new security roles

On 2021-06-14 23:53, Mark Dilger wrote:
>> On Jun 14, 2021, at 5:51 AM, torikoshia <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for working on this topic, I appreciate it!
> 
> Thank you for taking a look!
> 
>> BTW, do these patches enable non-superusers to create user with
>> bypassrls?
> 
> No, I did not break out the ability to create such users.
> 
>> Since I failed to apply the patches and didn't test them,
>> I may have overlooked something but I didn't find the
>> corresponding codes.
> 
> Do you believe that functionality should be added?  I have not thought
> much about that issue.

I just noticed that because I was looking into operations that can only 
be done by superusers.

It might be somewhat inconvenient in PostgreSQL service providers that 
don't give users superuser privileges, but at least I don't have a 
specific demand for it.


Regards,

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Atsushi Torikoshi
NTT DATA CORPORATION