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Re: State of the art re: group default privileges

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On 03/20/2013 04:11 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 03/20/2013 06:40 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
On 03/20/2013 03:26 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 03/20/2013 05:18 PM, Rob Sargent wrote:


At the moment, everyone's just experimenting. Even with the proper
tooling, my blog app shouldn't have to handle the database permissions
table-by-table. I should be able to set up sensible defaults.

CREATE ROLE adrian LOGIN;
CREATE ROLE ranger LOGIN;
CREATE ROLE dev_user ROLE;
GRANT dev_user TO adrian;
GRANT dev_user TO ranger;

ALTER ROLE adrian IN DATABASE test set role=dev_user;

aklaver@panda:~> psql -d test -U adrian
...


Thanks, this is extremely close, but doesn't quite nail it: at the end,
what happens if you create a table as ranger? By default, adrian doesn't
have access to it. You could of course do,

   ALTER ROLE ranger IN DATABASE test set role=dev_user;

Now everything in the database will be owned by dev_user. But what
happens if we have 100 databases (this is realistic for us), and add a
new developer a year down the road? I have to not only add him to
dev_user, but look through each database, figure out which ones we've
used this trick on, and do,

Not sure why everything being owned by dev_user is a problem, you said the developers don't care about permissions or want to deal with them so why does it matter what role their objects get created as? As long as developer roles inherit dev_user they get common access to the objects.

Leave out the IN DATABASE and it will work for all databases in cluster.


   ALTER ROLE the_new_guy IN DATABASE foo set role=dev_user;

And I can already achieve this result with a pile of scripts. It just
feels half-assed. When I add someone to a group, they should inherit the
permissions of the group. More convenient, way safer.





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