On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 at 01:34, Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote:

> I'm slightly baffled that we would even allow having different owners on
> > different partitions, but that seems to be a separate discussion.
>
> Different owners can make sense for multiple layers of partitions
> where the children have less restrictions than the children.  Imagine
> for example a table listing the population of a country, with children
> partitioned by regions, and grand-children partitioned by cities.  The
> top-most parent could be owned by a minister, and lower levels apply
> to the region administrator, down to the city administrators.
>

That use case is possible using different privileges.

Having different owners makes it *very* difficult to administer.

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