Re: Restoring default privileges on objects

From: Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stuart McGraw <smcg4191(at)mtneva(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Restoring default privileges on objects
Date: 2023-08-29 19:50:30
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> On 29/08/2023 21:27 CEST Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Yeah, perhaps. The reason it so seldom comes up is that a state of
> zero privileges is extremely rare (because it's useless in practice).
>
> That being the case, if we were to do something about this, I'd vote
> for changing the display of zero-privileges to "(none)" or something
> along that line, rather than changing the display of NULL, which
> people are accustomed to.

+1

> Fixing \dp to honor "\pset null" for this might be a reasonable
> thing to do too. I'm actually a bit surprised that that doesn't
> work already.

Looks like all commands in src/bin/psql/describe.c set nullPrint = NULL. Has
been that way since at least 1999.

--
Erik

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