Re: Removing pg_pltemplate and creating "trustable" extensions
Tom Lane <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:38:59 -0500
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Stephen Frost <[email protected]> writes: > * Tom Lane ([email protected]) wrote: >> In the meantime, though, this idea as stated doesn't do anything except >> let a DB owner grant install privileges to someone else. I'm not even >> convinced that we want that, or that anyone needs it (I can recall zero >> such requests related to PLs in the past). And for sure it does not >> belong in a minimal implementation of this feature. > Yes, that's what this approach would do. I suppose an alternative would > be to lump it in with "CREATE" rights on the DB, but I've advocated and > will continue to advocate for splitting up of such broad rights. > DB-level CREATE rights currently cover both schemas and publications, > for example, even though the two have rather little to do with each > other. The patch as I'm proposing it has nothing to do with "CREATE" rights. You're attacking something different from what I actually want to do. regards, tom lane