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feat: owner-wide (global) default privileges
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feat: ensure: absent and a typed PUBLIC grantee
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12 changes: 10 additions & 2 deletions CHANGELOG.md
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Expand Up @@ -33,16 +33,24 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0

- **Approvals are bound to the database they were reviewed against, not just the Secret that reaches it.** Every plan records the server's physical identity (`pg_control_system().system_identifier`, the storage lineage) and a logical fingerprint of the resolved host, port and database, and both are part of the approval digest. If either changes between approval and execution — or the physical identifier was readable at approval and is not at execution — the plan is superseded instead of executed. Set `spec.connection.requirePhysicalIdentity: true` to stop reconciliation entirely (`TargetIdentityBlocked`) when the identifier cannot be read, e.g. on engines that only speak the PostgreSQL protocol. (#180, #173)

- **Owner-wide default privileges.** `default_privileges` entries accept `scope: {type: global}` beside the existing `schema:` shorthand, emitting `ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR ROLE ...` with no `IN SCHEMA` clause. PostgreSQL keeps default privileges in two layers, and only the global one applies to every schema an owner creates objects in — including schemas no policy manages. Inspection reads the global layer for exactly the `(owner, object type)` pairs a manifest declares, reporting the *effective* default so a database with no explicit `pg_default_acl` row still compares against what PostgreSQL will apply. Owner self-entries are excluded, because every `ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES` materializes the owner's implicit self-grant into the stored row and reporting it would make authoritative mode revoke the owner's own default on the next reconcile. Global changes are counted on their own line in `diff` output, and in a bundle only the document owning the owner role may declare them. See [default privileges](https://hardbyte.github.io/pgroles/docs/default-privileges/).

- **`ensure: absent` and a typed `PUBLIC` grantee.** PostgreSQL grants `EXECUTE` on every function to `PUBLIC` without writing an ACL entry, so no combination of positive grants could take it away — a `SECURITY DEFINER` routine stayed callable by every role. Grant entries and default-privilege entries now accept `ensure: absent`, which revokes a privilege where it is held, and `role: PUBLIC` addresses the pseudo-role (rendered unquoted, never as the identifier `"PUBLIC"`). Inspection reports PUBLIC's *effective* privileges, synthesizing `acldefault(...)` where the ACL is still NULL, so a fresh database plans the revoke it needs. Pair an object-level absence rule with a global default-privilege one to cover both today's objects and tomorrow's. **PUBLIC is reconciled only where a rule names it**, in every mode: a PUBLIC privilege no rule mentions is never revoked, and deleting a `present` PUBLIC rule does not revoke it — switch the rule to `ensure: absent`. `additive` silently ignores absence assertions, since it never revokes; `adopt` and `authoritative` apply them. Preflight warns on `diff` and dry runs, and blocks a real apply, when the executor cannot act as a default-privilege owner or cannot revoke on objects it does not own — a PUBLIC revoke without that authority silently changes nothing and would otherwise re-plan forever. See [grants](https://hardbyte.github.io/pgroles/docs/grants/) and [default privileges](https://hardbyte.github.io/pgroles/docs/default-privileges/).

### Changed

- **Bundle plan JSON is now `pgroles.bundle_plan.v2`.** Default-privilege changes and their ownership keys carry a tagged `scope` (`{"type": "schema", "schema": "app"}` or `{"type": "global"}`) in place of the bare `schema` string, which could not express a global rule. **Migration:** read `scope.schema` where you read `schema`, and handle `scope.type == "global"` entries having no schema at all.

- **`diff --format json` carries the same tagged `scope` on default-privilege changes.** Unlike bundle output it has no `schema_version` field to bump, so nothing announces the change in the payload itself. **Migration:** the same one as above — read `scope.schema` where you read `schema`, and handle `scope.type == "global"` entries having no schema. This output is a bare array of changes and stays unversioned for now, so treat its shape as unstable and pin the pgroles version if you parse it.

- **`spec.mode: plan` is renamed to `spec.mode: observe`, with a deprecation window.** "Plan" now names exactly one thing, the `PostgresPolicyPlan` resource; the `ApprovalIgnored` reason `PlanModeNeverExecutes` is now `ObserveModeNeverExecutes`. The old value keeps working: `mode: plan` stays an accepted schema value with identical behaviour, so a GitOps controller re-applying an existing manifest is unaffected by the upgrade. A policy using it reports a `ModeValueDeprecated` condition, warns in the operator log, and counts toward `pgroles.deprecated.mode_plan`.
**Upgrade:** change `mode: plan` to `mode: observe` in your manifests at your convenience — a future release removes the `plan` value, and that removal will be the breaking change.

- **BREAKING: policy content now has explicit size limits.** Identifiers (role, schema, owner, member names) are capped at 63 characters *and* 63 bytes — the point past which PostgreSQL silently truncates — and every list and map has a bound: 1024 roles, 4096 grants, 2048 memberships, and so on (full table in the [manifest reference](https://hardbyte.github.io/pgroles/docs/manifest-reference/)). The bounds apply to `PostgresPolicy`, to candidates, and to `pgroles validate` alike, and they are what makes candidate immutability enforceable by the API server.
**Upgrade:** a policy exceeding a limit is rejected on its next apply with a field-level error. Each limit sits at least 20× above the corresponding count in the largest policy known to run in production; previously the same policy would eventually have hit an opaque `etcdserver: request is too large`. (#182, #173)

- **BREAKING: the approval digest encoding is now `pgroles.io/approval-effect/v2`**, which binds the target identity above.
**Upgrade:** on the first reconcile after upgrading, every open plan is superseded and replaced by an equivalent plan under v2, and recorded decisions do not carry over — open plans need one fresh approval. Nothing executes in the meantime. Deliberately, a `pg_upgrade` (fresh `system_identifier`) or a blue-green cutover also moves the identity and invalidates any approval open across it; re-approve the fresh plan afterwards. (#180)
- **BREAKING: the approval digest encoding is now `pgroles.io/approval-effect/v3`.** v2 binds the target identity above, and v3 additionally carries a default-privilege rule's scope as a tagged `scope` value instead of a bare `schema` string, which could not express an owner-wide rule.
**Upgrade:** on the first reconcile after upgrading, every open plan is superseded and replaced by an equivalent plan under v3, and recorded decisions do not carry over — open plans need one fresh approval. Nothing executes in the meantime. Deliberately, a `pg_upgrade` (fresh `system_identifier`) or a blue-green cutover also moves the identity and invalidates any approval open across it; re-approve the fresh plan afterwards. (#180)

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Use shorter US-English wording.

Replace “Nothing executes in the meantime” with “Nothing executes until then.” Replace “afterwards” with “afterward.”

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- **URL-mode connections bind the endpoint they resolve to**, not only the Secret name and key — editing the URL inside a referenced Secret is no longer invisible to an open approval. Credentials stay excluded, so password and token rotation still do not invalidate approvals. (#180, #185)

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"default": [],
"description": "One-off default privileges.",
"items": {
"description": "Default privilege configuration.",
"description": "Default privilege configuration.\n\nThe scope rules are also expressed as CEL so the API server rejects a bad\nentry at apply time. `resolved_scope` enforces the same rules for the CLI,\nwhich has no admission step.",
"properties": {
"grant": {
"items": {
"description": "A single default privilege grant entry.",
"properties": {
"ensure": {
"description": "Whether the listed privileges must exist or must not exist.\n\n`absent` asserts one ACL edge only. It plans a REVOKE when the privilege is\nfound live, and it says nothing about access the grantee may still have\nthrough role membership or ownership.",
"enum": [
"present",
"absent"
],
"type": "string"
},
"on_type": {
"description": "PostgreSQL object types that can have privileges granted on them.",
"enum": [
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"type": "array"
},
"role": {
"description": "The role receiving the default privilege. Only used in top-level default_privileges\n(in profiles, the role is determined by expansion).",
"description": "The role receiving the default privilege. Only used in top-level default_privileges\n(in profiles, the role is determined by expansion). The exact-uppercase\nvalue `PUBLIC` means the PostgreSQL PUBLIC pseudo-role.",
"maxLength": 63,
"minLength": 1,
"nullable": true,
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"type": "string"
},
"schema": {
"description": "Schema shorthand, equivalent to `scope: {type: schema, schema: ...}`.\nExactly one of `schema` and `scope` must be set.",
"maxLength": 63,
"minLength": 1,
"nullable": true,
"type": "string"
},
"scope": {
"description": "Where the defaults apply: one schema, or owner-wide (global). Global\nscope renders `ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES` without an `IN SCHEMA` clause.",
"nullable": true,
"properties": {
"schema": {
"description": "Schema name. Required for `type: schema`, forbidden for `type: global`.",
"maxLength": 63,
"minLength": 1,
"nullable": true,
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"description": "The kind of default-privilege scope.",
"enum": [
"global",
"schema"
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"type": "string"
}
},
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"type"
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"type": "object",
"x-kubernetes-validations": [
{
"message": "`schema` is required when type is `schema` and forbidden when type is `global`",
"rule": "has(self.schema) == (self.type == 'schema')"
}
]
}
},
"required": [
"grant",
"schema"
"grant"
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],
"type": "object"
"type": "object",
"x-kubernetes-validations": [
{
"message": "exactly one of `schema` and `scope` must be set",
"rule": "has(self.schema) != has(self.scope)"
}
]
},
"maxItems": 512,
"type": "array"
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"items": {
"description": "A concrete grant on a specific object or wildcard.",
"properties": {
"ensure": {
"description": "Whether the listed privileges must exist or must not exist.\n\n`absent` asserts one ACL edge only. It plans a REVOKE when the privilege is\nfound live, and it says nothing about access the grantee may still have\nthrough role membership or ownership.",
"enum": [
"present",
"absent"
],
"type": "string"
},
"object": {
"description": "Target object for a grant.",
"properties": {
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"type": "array"
},
"role": {
"description": "The grantee. The exact-uppercase value `PUBLIC` means the PostgreSQL\nPUBLIC pseudo-role; any other value is an ordinary role name.",
"maxLength": 63,
"minLength": 1,
"type": "string"
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"items": {
"description": "Default privilege grant within a profile.",
"properties": {
"ensure": {
"description": "Whether the privilege must be present or absent. Matches the\ntop-level `default_privileges` entries, which carry the same field.",
"enum": [
"present",
"absent"
],
"type": "string"
},
"on_type": {
"description": "PostgreSQL object types that can have privileges granted on them.",
"enum": [
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