Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Include foreign tables in information_schema.table_privileges

On 8/16/17 07:27, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> Include foreign tables in information_schema.table_privileges
>>
>> This appears to have been an omission in the original commit
>> 0d692a0dc9f. All related information_schema views already include
>> foreign tables.
>>
>> Reported-by: Nicolas Thauvin <nicolas(dot)thauvin(at)dalibo(dot)com>
>
> I would have been disinclined to back-patch this. Somebody could be
> depending on the current behavior, and now we'll end up with two kinds
> of clusters, one where initdb was done before these changes and
> another where it was done afterward. So nobody will be able to count
> on this behavior one way or the other.

I understand that. But this is an additive change, so to speak, so
whatever behavior someone was relying on should continue to work.

I did not backpatch 9b5140fb503eb50634cd7e080d41f4d9af41e0a6 because
that is a behavior-breaking change.

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