Re: Privileges and inheritance

On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 10:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 13:06 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> I don't see where the problem is here.
> 
> > In your last post you said it was necessary to use ONLY to address the
> > required partitions and so setup would be weird. I am showing that this
> > is not required and the setup is smooth. 
> 
> Peter is right and you are wrong: this setup STILL needs ONLY, unless
> permissions are in sync with inheritance, ie, every child has the union
> of its parents' permissions.  It would work at least as well under
> Peter's proposal as with the existing behavior.

What I proposed works, so perhaps we are talking about different things.

If you wish to see all data you grant access to parent_full, if you wish
to see recent data you grant access to parent_partial. The partitions
can then be given access to the various users.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com