Re: Allow CURRENT_ROLE in GRANTED BY - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Allow CURRENT_ROLE in GRANTED BY
Date
Msg-id 20200624210831.GA7173@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Allow CURRENT_ROLE in GRANTED BY  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Allow CURRENT_ROLE in GRANTED BY  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 2020-Jun-24, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> I was checking some loose ends in SQL conformance, when I noticed: We
> support GRANT role ... GRANTED BY CURRENT_USER, but we don't support
> CURRENT_ROLE in that place, even though in PostgreSQL they are equivalent.
> Here is a trivial patch to add that.

Hmm, since this adds to RoleSpec, this change makes every place that
uses that production also take CURRENT_ROLE, so we'd need to document in
all those places.  For example, alter_role.sgml, create_schema.sgml,
etc.

This also affects role_list (but maybe the docs for those are already
vague enough -- eg. ALTER INDEX .. OWNED BY only says "role_name" with
no further explanation, even though it does take "current_user".)

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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