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Re: Some things I like to pick from the TODO list ...

This is a discussion on Re: Some things I like to pick from the TODO list ... within the pgsql Hackers forums, part of the PostgreSQL category; --> Andreas Pflug wrote: > Merlin Moncure wrote: > >>>3) Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be applied to all schema > ...


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Old 04-11-2008, 03:33 AM
Bruce Momjian
 
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Default Re: Some things I like to pick from the TODO list ...

Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Merlin Moncure wrote:
> >>>3) Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be applied to all schema

> >
> > objects
> >
> >>>with one
> >>
> >>Maybe this is "apply schema changes to several objects with one
> >>command". This seems reasonable.

> >
> >
> > Well, I don't know. IMO, what I would really like to see is for various
> > database objects to inherit permissions from the schema. The ability to
> > GRANT to all tables in a schema, etc. is almost trivial to implement in
> > plpgsql/dynamic sql currently.

>
> And pgAdmin3 V1.2 has the Grant Wizard, as pgAdmin2 had. Though an SQL
> command for granting on multiple objects won't hurt.
>
> > However the major annoyance with that
> > approach is that I have to remember to re-grant permissions to tables in
> > a schema after running that function. As worded, the TODO does not
> > solve that problem.
> >
> > IOW, I would really like to see the TODO to be reworded 'allow schema
> > objects to inherit permissions from the schema' or something like
> > this...

>
> This sounds quite helpful too, but I'd call it a second TODO.


Added to TODO:

* Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be inherited by objects based on
schema permissions

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