Re: pgsql: Improve default and empty privilege outputs in psql.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Improve default and empty privilege outputs in psql.
Date: 2024-09-24 16:27:59
Message-ID: 3361177.1727195279@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> writes:
> Re: Tom Lane
>> Improve default and empty privilege outputs in psql.

> I'm sorry to report this when 17.0 has already been wrapped, but this
> change is breaking `psql -l` against 9.3-or-earlier servers:
> FEHLER: 42883: Funktion pg_catalog.cardinality(aclitem[]) existiert nicht

Grumble. Well, if that's the worst bug in 17.0 we should all be
very pleased indeed ;-). I'll see about fixing it after the
release freeze lifts.

> The psql docs aren't really explicit about which old versions are
> still supported, but there's some mentioning that \d should work back
> to 9.2:

Yes, that's the expectation. I'm sure we can think of a more
backwards-compatible way to test for empty datacl, though.

regards, tom lane

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