Re: Delegating superuser tasks to new security roles (Was: Granting control of SUSET gucs to non-superusers)

On 2021-Jul-26, Tom Lane wrote:

> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > ... Tom's suggestion
> > would work, of course, but it would mean having to create event triggers
> > for all the roles in the system, and would those roles who own those
> > event triggers be able to disable them..?
> 
> Uh, why not?  If you own the trigger, you can drop it, so why shouldn't
> you be able to temporarily disable it?

I think an auditing system that can be turned off by the audited user is
pretty much useless.  Or did I misunderstood what you are suggesting?

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