On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 11:57:37AM -0400, John Naylor wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 12:32 AM Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> wrote:
> > [v2]
> 
> Hi Noah,
> 
> In the refactoring patch, there is a lingering comment reference to 
> roles_has_privs_of(). Aside from that, it looks good to me. A possible thing 
> to consider is an assert that is_admin is not null where we expect that.

Thanks.  The next version will contain the comment fix and
"Assert(OidIsValid(admin_of) == PointerIsValid(is_admin));".

> The database owner role patch looks good as well.

Do you plan to put the CF entry into Ready for Committer, or should the
patches wait for another review?

> > I ended up blocking DDL that creates role memberships involving the new 
> > role;
> > see reasons in user.c comments.  Lifting those restrictions looked feasible,
> > but it was inessential to the mission, and avoiding unintended consequences
> > would have been tricky.  Views "information_schema.enabled_roles" and
> > "information_schema.applicable_roles" list any implicit membership in
> > pg_database_owner, but pg_catalog.pg_group and psql \dgS do not.  If this
> > leads any reviewer to look closely at applicable_roles, note that its 
> > behavior
> > doesn't match its documentation
> > (https://postgr.es/m/flat/20060728170615.gy20...@kenobi.snowman.net).
> 
> Is this something that needs fixing separately?

It is bug, but I think fixing it is not very urgent and should happen
separately, if at all.


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