Re: grant under SQL92

Vladislav Breus wrote:
>test=> create table test (col1 int,col2 int);
>test=> grant select on test (col1) to user1;
>ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "("
>
>
>I'm trying to use GRANT with SQL92 extentions,(set permissions on
>the individual column) but it dosn't work.
>
>Where I was wrong ?
>Please, help me.

Sorry. That feature is not yet supported at all. You can only grant
permissions on whole tables.

>from aw_pgsql_book:
>>The SQL92 syntax for GRANT allows setting privileges for individual columns
> within a table, and
>>allows setting a privilege to grant the same privileges to others:
>>GRANT privilege [, ...]
>>ON object [ ( column [, ...] ) ] [, ...]
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>TO { PUBLIC | username [, ...] }
>>[ WITH GRANT OPTION ]
>
>by default, I can use SQL92 format - is it right??

No. You quoted from the compatibility section of the GRANT manual page, which
lists what SQL92 allows and PostgreSQL does not!

SQL92 (SQL99?) compatibility is a lon-term goal which has not yet been
attained.

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