On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:36:03PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 09:15:03AM -0800, Nathan Bossart wrote: >> The main idea behind this work is breaking out privileges into more >> granular pieces. If I want to create a role that only runs VACUUM on some >> tables on the weekend, why Ń•hould I have to also give it the ability to >> ANALYZE, REFRESH, CLUSTER, and REINDEX? IMHO we should really let the user >> decide what set of privileges makes sense for their use-case. I'm unsure >> the grouping all these privileges together serves much purpose besides >> preserving ACL bits. > > Hmm. I'd like to think that we should keep a frugal mind here. More > bits are now available, but it does not strike me as a good idea to > force their usage more than necessary, so grouping all these no-quite > DDL commands into the same bag does not sound that bad to me.
Okay, it seems I am outnumbered. I will work on updating the patch to add an ACL_MAINTAIN bit and a pg_maintain_all_tables predefined role. -- Nathan Bossart Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
