Re: BUG #6021: There is no difference between default and empty access privileges with \dp

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> One possibility is to start showing "default" when the ACL is null,
>>> which would be quite easy to implement:
>>>
>>>        COALESCE(array_to_string(c.relacl, E'\n'), 'default')
>>>
>>> But that might be too big a change.
>
>> I don't think that's too big a change.  ISTM we ought to change
>> something.  Another idea would be to always show the permissions, even
>> if nothing has been changed from the defaults.
>
> That would require psql to have local knowledge about what the defaults
> are, which is someplace I'd rather not go ...

Ugh. It's too bad the server doesn't expose that. But given that it
doesn't, your idea sounds good to me.

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