Excerpts from Marko Kreen's message of jue dic 29 15:22:49 -0300 2011:
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 03:12:50PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Excerpts from Marko Kreen's message of jue dic 29 15:04:49 -0300 2011:
> > > 3) Have a way to format aclitem into something
> > > that can used to create GRANT statement easily. Eg:
> > >
> > > pg_get_privilege_info(
> > > IN priv aclitem,
> > > OUT rolename text,
> > > OUT privlist text[],
> > > OUT privlist_with_grant_option text[]);
> > >
> > > This allows doing complex introspection in pl/pgsql
> > > and also helps tools that want to re-create table structure
> > > in other databases.
> >
> > aclexplode?
>
> I guess that decides the name. :)
I have the (hopefully wrong) impression that you're missing the fact
that it already exists, at least in 9.0.
I have a backported version of it we wrote for a customer, in case
you're interested on using it in previous releases. Not that it's all
that difficult to write ...
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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