Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
> Can you refer me to a general prospective-permissions scheme that is
> more widely accepted?
Well, the point of my post was that nothing's gotten to the point of
being "widely accepted". But there are people working on a "default
ACLs" scheme that would cover some of that territory.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/DefaultACL
regards, tom lane