Re: Groups and roles

"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> I think the other requirement of roles is that they are able to own objects.
> ie. we need to allow groups to own objects.

Hm.  That seems to be another reason to unify usesysid and grosysid into
a single unique something-id.  Which probably implies unifying pg_shadow
and pg_group into one table.
        regards, tom lane