Re: BUG #1145: silent REVOKE failures - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #1145: silent REVOKE failures
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Msg-id 14322.1083425992@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to BUG #1145: silent REVOKE failures  ("PostgreSQL Bugs List" <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: BUG #1145: silent REVOKE failures  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> writes:
> Well, if I issue a "REVOKE" and the rights are not revoked and could never
> have been because I have no right to issue such statement on the object, I
> tend to call this deep absence of success a "failure".

> If I do the very opposite GRANT, I have a clear "permission denied".

Oh, I thought you were complaining that revoking rights not previously
granted should be an error.  I agree with the above; in fact it's a
duplicate of a previous complaint.

            regards, tom lane

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