Re: pre-proposal: permissions made easier

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pre-proposal: permissions made easier
Date: 2009-06-28 21:27:19
Message-ID: 4A47E037.2050203@dunslane.net
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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.

cheers

andrew

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