Re: Non-superuser subscription owners

Le mercredi 20 octobre 2021, 20:40:39 CEST Mark Dilger a écrit :
> These patches have been split off the now deprecated monolithic "Delegating
> superuser tasks to new security roles" thread at [1].
>
> The purpose of these patches is to allow non-superuser subscription owners
> without risk of them overwriting tables they lack privilege to write
> directly. This both allows subscriptions to be managed by non-superusers,
> and protects servers with subscriptions from malicious activity on the
> publisher side.

Thank you Mark for splitting this.

This patch looks good to me, and provides both better security (by closing the
"dropping superuser role" loophole) and usefule features.


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Ronan Dunklau