Re: REFERENCES privilege should not be symmetric (was Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Permissions Article)

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Paul Jungwirth <pj(at)illuminatedcomputing(dot)com>, PGSQL Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: REFERENCES privilege should not be symmetric (was Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Permissions Article)
Date: 2017-03-31 13:22:01
Message-ID: CA+Tgmobst9385gWq3g3LPkNn0NkbRk0CWPQD5YH1p2J6MaVJLQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> In short, it seems like this statement in the docs is correctly describing
> our code's behavior, but said behavior is wrong and should be changed.
> I'd propose fixing it like that in HEAD; I'm not sure if the back branches
> should also be changed.

Sounds reasonable, but I don't see much advantage to changing it in
the back-branches.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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