Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix two bugs in change_owner_recurse_to_sequences: it was

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 01:35:20AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> > Should we perhaps also propagate grant insert on a table to grant 
> > select, update on dependent serial sequences?
> 
> Doesn't really follow.  That code is maintaining an invariant: the owner
> of a table owns the associated indexes, toast table, sequences, etc.
> There's no system-wide assumption that sequence privileges track table
> privileges.

I brought this up a few months ago.  Tom, weren't your objections
based more on implementation concerns than on whether the idea
itself had merit?

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-10/msg00511.php

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Michael Fuhr
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