Hi, I'm using PostgreSQL 8.0. I created a group called grpA and granted grpA 'SELECT' permission on view viewA. When I dropped grpA and created group grpB, group grpB 'automatically' has SELECT permission to viewA. After dropping a group with permission to a view, I see that the permission stored in the relacl field fo pg_class is changed from the group name to the sysid of the dropped group. When a new group is created, it gets a sysid that is one greater than the largest of the sysid (e.g., the sysid of the last group dropped). Thus the new group may 'inherit' the permissions of a dropped group. I have not found this behavior documented any where. Is this behavior intended? What do I need to do so that when I drop a group all the permissions of the group are also 'dropped' (i.e., cleared from the relacl field)? Thanks for you help. Rich Harris
