Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema
Date
Msg-id 200906181021.36835.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Wednesday 17 June 2009 20:27:20 Robert Haas wrote:
> What to do about wildcards is a stickier wicket, and maybe we need to
> decide that first, but I really don't think we should be discouraging
> anyone from investigating this stuff and trying to come up with good
> solutions.  There will always be some people for whom a custom
> PL/pgsql function that directly accesses the catalog tables is the
> only workable answer, but we can make PostgreSQL a whole lot easier to
> use by reducing the need to do that for simple cases.

I'm all for investigating it.  I just have my doubts that "grant on all tables 
in schema X" is a sufficiently general use case, even if you only concentrate 
on the simple cases.


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