On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Andrew Dunstan (andrew@dunslane.net) wrote:
>> > Address problem where superusers are assumed to be members of all groups
>> >
>> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-04/msg00337.php
>>
>> This turns out to be a one-liner.
>
> I really don't know that I agree with removing this, to be honest.. I
> haven't got time at the moment to really discuss it, but at the very
> least, not being able to 'set role' to any user when postgres would be
> REALLY annoying..
Sure. But I don't believe anyone has proposed changing that. What
we're talking about here is that, for example, setting a reject rule
for a certain group in pg_hba.conf will always match superusers, even
though they're not in that group.
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