Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: two new role attributes and/or capabilities?

[Stephen Frost]

* José Luis Tallón (jltal...@adv-solutions.net) wrote:
> On 12/23/2014 07:01 PM, David G Johnston wrote:
> >[snip]
> >So you want to say:
> >
> >GRANT IMPERSONATE TO bouncer; --covers the "ALL" requirement
> >
> >instead of
> >
> >GRANT victim1 TO bouncer;
> >GRANT victim2 TO bouncer;
> >etc...
> >
> >-- these would still be used to cover the "limited users" requirement
> >?
> 
> |GRANT IMPERSONATE ON actual_role TO login_role|
> 
>     would actually get us closer to how some other databases do, now
> that I think of it. This could be just some syntactic sugar.
>     Might definitively ease migrations, if nothing else.

Uh, how is this different from GRANT actual_role TO login_role, with use
of noinherit..?

        THanks,

                Stephen

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