On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 23:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net> wrote:
> >> So there's no way to see if a particular privilege has been granted to public. ISTM 'public' should be accepted,
sinceyou can't use it as a role name anyway...
>
> > It's a bit sticky - you could make that work for
> > has_table_privilege(name, oid, text) or has_table_privilege(name,
> > text, text), but what would you do about the versions whose first
> > argument is an oid?
>
> Nothing. The only reason to use those forms is in a join against
> pg_authid, and the "public" group doesn't have an entry there.
ISTM this bug should be on the open items list...
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