Re: has_column_privilege behavior (was Re: Assert failed in snprintf.c)

Greetings,

* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> > My complaint is specifically trying to do something like:
[...]
> That code is kinda broken anyway, because it won't survive relation drops
> either. What you *should* be writing is

Yes, I agree, but it still seems like we're throwing an ERROR
unnecessairly.

> Having said that, I'm fine with having it return NULL if the given
> attname matches an attisdropped column.

Ok, that's really all I was asking about.

> ... What I was on about is what
> happens when you write
>
> has_column_privilege('sometab'::regclass, 'somecol', 'SELECT');
>
> and sometab exists but somecol doesn't.

Yeah, having that throw an error seems reasonable to me.

Thanks!

Stephen