On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 3:52 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I continue to think that allowing DB owners to decide this is, if not
> fundamentally the wrong thing, at least not a feature that anybody has
> asked for in the past. The feature *I* want in this area is for the
> superuser to be able to decide who's got install privilege. Making
> it a DB-level privilege doesn't serve that goal, more the opposite.
I agree.
> Still, if we can compromise by making this part of DB "CREATE" privilege
> for the time being, I'm willing to take that compromise. It's certainly
> better than failing to get rid of pg_pltemplate.
Doesn't that have exactly the issue you describe above?
bob=> grant create on database bob to fred;
GRANT
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