Re: WIP: Column-level Privileges

* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> > ... A case I just realized might be an issue is
> > doing a 'select 1 from x;' where you have *no* rights on x, or any
> > columns in it, would still get you the rowcount.
>
> Well, if you have table-level select on x, I would expect that to work,
> even if your privs on every column of x are revoked. If the patch
> doesn't get this right then it needs more work ...

Table-level select on x is equivilant to having column-level select on
every column, per the spec. The issue here, that I'm planning to fix
shortly, is that you could get a rowcount without having table-level or
column-level select rights on the table.

Thanks,

Stephen