Re: group role membership

[Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>]

Tom(dot)Zschockelt(at)flender(dot)com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with postgres 8.1 and pgadmin 1.4.0 I found no way ( except a select on 
> pg_catalog-tables ) to
> get a list of all members belonging to certain group role.
>
> The other way around works ( all assigned roles to a certain role).

This isn't implemented yet; it will require an additional tab "members".

> If we use group roles to manage access to objects it would be neccessary 
> to get a list of all
> login-roles that are able to do e.g. a select .
>
> It would be nice if an solution will step through all recursive level ( 
> e.g. if a login-role is member of a group-role which is member of a 
> group-role itself, ... ).

Please make a proposal how this should look like concretely, and how it 
should be controlled (context menu on object, property or so?).

Regards,
Andreas