On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 6:46 PM Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> wrote:
> I guess the "more convenient" is where I'm confused, because the "grant
> subscription_owner to table owner with set role true" is not likely to
> be conveniently already present; it would need to be issued manually to
> take advantage of this special case.

You and I disagree about the likelihood of that, but I could well be wrong.

> Do you have any concern about the weirdness where assigning the
> subscription to a higher-privilege user Z would cause B's trigger to
> fail?

Not very much. I think the biggest risk is user confusion, but I don't
think that's a huge risk because I don't think this scenario will come
up very often. Also, it's kind of hard to imagine that there's a
security model here which never does anything potentially surprising.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com


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