Re: REFERENCES privilege should not be symmetric (was Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Permissions Article) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: REFERENCES privilege should not be symmetric (was Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Permissions Article)
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Msg-id 19810.1490995442@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: REFERENCES privilege should not be symmetric (was Re:[GENERAL] Postgres Permissions Article)  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I think the benefit is reduction of user confusion.  Admittedly, since
>> Paul is the first person I can remember ever having complained about it,
>> maybe nobody else is confused.

> ​After going back-and-forth on this (and not being able to independently
> come to the conclusion that what we are adhering to is actually a typo) I'm
> going to toss my +1 in with Robert's.

OK, the consensus seems clearly against changing this in the back branches,
so I'll just fix it in HEAD.

            regards, tom lane


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