Re: Orphaned users in PG16 and above can only be managed by Superusers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2025-01-23 Th 4:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> I wonder if it's a mistake that a role membership that has WITH ADMIN on
>> another role is silently removed if the member role is removed. We e.g. do
>> *not* do that for pg_auth_members.grantor:
>>
>> ERROR:  2BP01: role "r1" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it
>> DETAIL:  privileges for membership of role r2 in role r3
> Yeah, I'm not sure about this either, but this is the kind of thing I
> was thinking about when I replied before, saying that maybe dropping
> role B shouldn't just succeed. Maybe dropping a role that doesn't have
> privileges to administer any other role should be different than
> dropping one that does.
>

That seems reasonable and consistent with what we do elsewhere, as 
Andres noted.


cheers


andrew

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