Re: pre-proposal: permissions made easier

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 06:28:32PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> David Fetter wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 05:27:19PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>>> David Fetter wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> * Users who come from MySQL every once in a while, annoyed that
>>>>> we don't support "GRANT ... *" syntax.
>>>>>
>>>> I'm missing what's wrong with a wild-card GRANT syntax for this
>>>> case.
>>>>
>>> Without a major change in the way we do permissions, it will not
>>> work prospectively. We have no way ATM to store permissions for an
>>> object that does not currently exist.
>>>
>>
>> There have been previous discussions of prospective permissions
>> changes. Are we restarting them here?
>
> *shrug*
>
> It's not on the TODO list. I recall it being raised from time to time
> but I certainly don't recall a consensus that it should be done, nor
> how,

That was my recollection, too.

> so if you're implying that such a thing is a settled decision I
> suspect you're not entirely correct.

By no means.

> Of course, my memory has been known to have errors ...

Same with mine ;)

Cheers,
David.
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