Re: [Doc] Improvements to ddl.sgl Privileges Section and Glossary

Any thoughts?

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 1:59 PM David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> In a nearby user complaint email [1] some missing information regarding
> ownership reassignment came to light. I took that and went a bit further
> to add what I felt was further missing information and context for how the
> privilege system is designed. I've tried to formalize and label existing
> concepts a bit and updated the glossary accordingly.
>
> The attached is a partial rewrite of the patch on the linked post after
> those comments were taken into consideration.
>
> The new glossary entry for privileges defines various qualifications of
> the term that are used in the new prose. I've marked up each of the
> variants and point them all back to the main entry. I didn't try to
> incorporate those terms, or even really look, anywhere else in the
> documentation. If the general idea is accepted that kind of work can be
> done as a follow-up.
>
> David J.
>
> [1]
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d294818d12280f6223ddf169ab5454927f5186b6.camel%40cybertec.at
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