On tis, 2011-04-05 at 14:47 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Supporting user mappings in COMMENT, EXTENSION, etc is not so critical > that we should push a possibly misdesigned notion of ownership into > the system for it. Better to take our time and think about that. > > (BTW, it might be useful to reconsider casts while we are thinking about > this. Those don't have a proper notion of ownership either. I'm a bit > inclined to think that we should just bite the bullet and add owner > columns to both these catalogs. But, again, let's not be hasty.)
As I said elsewhere, I think of user mappings as similar to role grants. An owner there would be similar to a grantor, so it would make sense. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
