On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 11:34 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 09:03:04AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > On Fri, 2022-11-04 at 10:49 +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2022-11-03 at 11:32 +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2022-11-02 at 19:29 +0000, David Burns wrote:
> > > > > Some additional clarity in the versions 14/15 documentation
> > > > > would be helpful specifically surrounding the "target_role"
> > > > > clause for the ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command. To the
> > > > > uninitiated, the current description seems vague. Maybe
> > > > > something like the following would help:
> > >
> > > After some more thinking, I came up with the attached patch.
> >
> I think something like this is highly useful because I have also seen
> people very confused why default privileges are not applied.
>
> However, maybe it could be made even clearer if also the main
> description is amended, like
>
> "You can change default privileges only for objects that will be created
> by yourself or by roles that you are a member of (via target_role)."
>
> or something.
True. I have done that in the attached patch.
In this patch, it is mentioned *twice* that ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES
only affects objects created by the current user. I thought that
would not harm, but if it is too redundant, I can remove the second
mention.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe